Word: suburbanization
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...artist begins with an outpouring of drawings and paintings around 1980, all on the same subject: the garden of a rented house in the south of France, an unremarkable scene of a small rectangular pool surrounded by a low boxwood hedge, rhododendrons and a claustrophobic screen of dank, suburban cypresses...
...send him to Washington, he just might help give Congress its first brother- sister act. His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 34, a public interest lawyer on leave from her job in the Maryland attorney general's office, is said to be considering running for the Second District in suburban Baltimore, where she has lived for about two years...
Along the way, Guerrero informed his captors that he did not have all the keys needed to open the facility's double-door system. Some were in the possession of another Brink's security officer, Yvon Bertoux. Within hours, Bertoux was abducted from the parking lot of his suburban apartment and his son held hostage while Bertoux was taken to the Brink's complex. Once inside, the gunmen managed to overpower four other guards and force Guerrero and Bertoux to help open the safe. The take, an estimated $9.5 million in cash and valuables, was the largest theft...
Cute fuzzy creatures come to life, the kids magically fly through the air, evil is conquered when the hero learns to believe in himself, and we are living another high-tech sitcom from the suburban psyche of Spielberg and Lucas (whose firm had a part in the film's extensive special effects...
...success and talent, Spielberg's weaknesses are prominently displayed in this foray beyond the safe climes of thrill-a-minute B-movie homages and suburban kiddie flicks. He is a craftsman, not an auteur, and one hopes his artistic imperialism will not cause him to stomp all over Anglo-Saxon culture's other golems...