Sentences with phrase «american small town life»

Around 1919 — 20 he read Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, short stories about middle American small town life, and abruptly, for two decades, depicted just that in an almost Edward Hopper way.

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Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed play George and Mary Bailey, a happy couple living a life of genteel poverty in the small American town of Bedford Falls.

Being Chinese - American born in AZ in a small town, everyone that I know and have known who immigrated from China believe in the evangelical christian way of life.

Production of S - Town began when a man reached out to This American Life bitterly complaining about his small Alabama tTown began when a man reached out to This American Life bitterly complaining about his small Alabama towntown.

One hundred years ago, when the great majority of Americans lived in small towns or on farms, solidarity was....

Lilacs tipped with light purple blooms still grace the side streets of small towns throughout the American Midwest, but as Lauck recognizes in an elegiac epilogue, fewer and fewer people live there.

Society was changing as well: the census of 1920 found more Americans living in cities than in small towns for the first time in our history, drawn there by war - industry jobs or driven by postwar restlessness.

Raised in a small town in the American Southwest, at the age of twenty she developed an anxiety disorder, which began a process of transformation and healing that changed her life.

I think she made me her personal project to teach small town American life to.

American Ultra is a fast - paced action comedy about Mike (Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small - town life with his live - in girlfriend, Phoebe (Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down.

Frederick Wiseman, one of the giants of American documentary filmmaking, spent a month in the fall of 1996 shooting 110 hours of footage of life in a small New England town, and this four - hour - and - eight - minute feature was the result.

A family's life in small - town Maine is shattered by the evil unleashed from an ancient American Indian burial ground.

It was easily last year's most corrosive Hollywood movie about the American way of life, and it was especially good at showing the claustrophobic desperation of living in a small midwestern town and slowly going insane — a potent literary theme at least since Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

In American movies, small towns have always been larger than life.

Sirk dug beneath the surface of idyllic American small - town life in the 1950s, and the surface has never been more beautiful than in this Technicolor nightmare of conformity and the repressive nature of community and family life.

Official Premise: WELCOME TO INSPIRATION Set in the small fictional American southern town of Mountain Brook, «Welcome To Inspiration» follows a diverse cast of characters as they struggle in their lives.

An effective, if unenjoyable allegory for small town American life, Needful Things is for completists only.

And Kidron's feeling for American small - town life — what it looks, sounds, and feels like — seems to border on the nonexistent.

The Happiest Day, however, suggests that the evening he unceremoniously lost in two rounds against American boxer Davey Moore was, in fact, a happy occasion for Mäki, as it signaled the end of two weeks of overwhelming media hype and pressure, thus allowing him to return to his quiet life in the small town of Kokkola, and especially to his new wife Raija (Oona Airola).

In Western the brothers immerse themselves in two small towns on opposite sides of the Mexican - American border to witness the lives, images and experiences of residents increasingly impacted by the hazards of the drug war.

Based on a real - life story, Disney's newest inspirational sports film follows a high school cross-country team in a small, impoverished, primarily Mexican - American town and the coach who changes their lives — and his own.

Little Accidents / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo)-- In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together — a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy — in a web of secrets.

I wanted to jump in and have it be a completely truthful American film, not a European take on American small - town life.

But they don't know this yet... So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small - town Ohio.

Doc Hata lives an exemplary American small - town life, but, as Lee masterfully reveals, his decorum conceals an immigrant's tragic past.

«The Flicker of Old Dreams is at once a vivid and wildly compelling study of small town American life and an intimate and incisive exploration of the human condition, from love to loss and beyond.

I've had a passion for everything British my entire life, despite being raised as a small - town girl in the American Midwest, After years of dreaming, I got the chance to live and work in England for an entire year.

Life in the big city, with its bustling crowds and towering skyscrapers, is widely recognized as a key influence, but this exhibition reveals how American artists also canvassed the country, seeking inspiration from wide - open spaces and small - town culture across the United States.

In his series Grays the Mountain Sends, Bryan Schutmaat combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes that explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.

Four Decades also highlights one of Barney's editorial masterpieces, The Limo, 2006, as well as works from her series «Small Towns,» focusing on the nuances of regional American life.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

But the commonly held narrative of modern art decrees that Pollock the pupil had in fact rebelled against Benton the master, the explosive formal energy of Pollock's Abstract Expressionism supplanting the naturalistic imagery of Benton's brand of Regionalism, the Depression Era art movement that rooted American values in small town and rural life.

According to a recent report, more than half of Americans live in a child care desert, where there are more than three children for every licensed child care slot.21 While child care deserts are a widespread problem, licensed child care is especially scarce in small towns and rural communities.

It was from family and small town living that Dusti gained her appreciation of the great American values of honesty, integrity, and a hard days» work.

When CJ Davis moved from her small town in Wisconsin to attend American University in Washington, D.C., she initially felt like she was living «in a bubble.»