Word: town
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been quiet on the candidate front since Gore finally tore himself away from Florida at 5 a.m., ending a 30-hour, six-town day spanning 1,951 miles, and Bush wound up in Arkansas after his 17-hour, four-town final push covering 2,872 miles. By mid-morning, both men had cast their votes, and were set to grab a nap while voters went to the polls to give them their answer...
From designs for Renaissance forts to a replica of the sexy robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926. From baroque engravings of New World cannibals in grass huts to pictures of yuppies enjoying a stroll through Celebration, Disney's "ideal town" in Florida. From Nazi racial propaganda to unalluring photos of early kibbutzim in Israel. From Stalinist kitsch in the '30s to Haight-Ashbury peace-and-love kitsch in the '60s. This intriguing range of objects and images is contained in "Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World," the sprawling show that kicks...
Even so, there are some surprising omissions. The grid city of 19th century Barcelona, designed from the ground up as an ideal townscape by the socialist engineer Ildefons Cerda, is the biggest example of would-be Utopian town design that ever got built--but neither it nor its inventor rates a mention in the catalog...
...show's male admirers may have loved watching three pretty women solve crimes in skimpy clothes, but I was obsessed with it for another reason: all I ever wanted was a job. In 1976, other than my first-grade teacher, every woman of my small-town acquaintance was a housewife or a widowed housewife. The Angels not only had jobs, they had jobs within their jobs, often going undercover as hotel maids or race-car drivers or roller-derby players. And they were friends. That was the life I wanted, getting paid to do projects with your favorite people...
...fill a segment of the Howard Stern Show, and some of the new physical gags--one character keeps crashing into walls--look like outtakes from Carry On, Stripper. The result is a long slog to the famous last scene, where the boys get up in front of the town to take it all off. Which they do, in the clever high spot of a show that needs more of them. --By Richard Zoglin