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...which has been used by schools since last September, has earned high marks from students. Says Jennifer Lombardi, 11, a sixth-grader at Lindbergh, "It's better than going to a book because it's easier to type into a keyboard than to flip through pages." Notes Adrian Treves, 14, a ninth-grader at Princeton High: "It's especially good for ancient history and English reports." Sums up Herbert Highfield, director of Princeton High's library: "If popularity indicates success, then this new encyclopedia is very successful indeed...
...attachments and enmities, his biblical moralizing and the descriptive genius of his prose. Nor was Clark, being essentially a 19th century critic at work in the 20th, able to bring to his work the array of insights about perception and psychology that distinguished contemporaries like Ernst Gombrich or Adrian Stokes. Clark was a pre-Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable...
FLASHDANCE Directed by Adrian Lyne...
...Flashdance looks like a 95-minute "video" for MTV, the cable music channel, it should be no surprise. For one thing, Director Adrian Lyne is another in the long list of British mannerists (Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson) to have graduated from TV commercials, and to bring their techniques and attention span with them. For another, the film's "production numbers" were designed, or at least marketed, with MTV in mind. Paramount began running two-minute commercials on MTV a full three weeks before the movie opened. "The MTV audience likes music, movement, dancing," notes Weaver. "We hoped...
...then put into ABC's current High Performance. His costar, Rick Edwards, 29, came directly from the December 1981 cover of G.Q. Ted McGinley, 24, modeled for everything from catalogues to Italy's L'Uomo Vogue before he wound up on ABC's Happy Days, Adrian Zmed, 29, did commercials for Thorn McAn shoes and Flair pens before co-starring with William Shatner in ABC's T.J. Hooker, and Peter Barton, 26, was seen parading around in bathing suits in Penthouse mag azine before he became the visitor from a distant planet...