One hundred years ago, when the great majority of
Americans lived in small towns or on farms, solidarity was....
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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 wa
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 wa
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 secret
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 secret
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 secret
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.
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.
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.
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 Wes
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 Wes
in small mountain
towns and mining communities
in the American Wes
in the
American West.
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.
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.»