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...Right-Winger David Funderburk, 42, a former Reagan Administration Ambassador to Rumania who resigned last year, charging that the State Department was too soft on the Communist country. Funderburk's campaign is being run by the state's National Congressional Club, which previously engineered the elections of Conservative Avatar Jesse Helms and his colleague John East, who is leaving the Senate after just one term because of a thyroid disorder. The N.C.C. has launched the same no-holds-barred polemical attack on Broyhill that it previously employed against Democrats...
Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes-of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed...
...obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East. The sequence ends, not insignificantly, with Glenn sitting on his stoop, lost in thought, with the moon over his shoulder. Is he a generic avatar or deep, complex character? Ganges becomes both as Huizenga puts him through various scenarios that straddle the border between reality and fantasy...
...distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...
Still, SpongeBob SquarePants belongs to a different breed of contemporary cartoon than Family Guy or The Simpsons. To begin with, its tone can’t exactly be described as one of social commentary. Its characters inhabit an underwater world that is in no meaningful way an avatar of our own. Anthropomorphic sea creatures might lie only a few steps beyond an alcoholic talking dog, but those steps cover significant distance. The only thing the three shows share is armies of loyal viewers that span the spectrum from toddlers to their parents to college students...