Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slug of beer. Crush out the cigarette, blink, and lean forward, towards the screen. Frank Reynolds is blinking at them. He never quite looks them in the eye. The TV projects its blue gleam over waxen faces. A sip of beer. In an aggressive gesture President Carter may boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow if the Russians don't go home. This threat elicits a wry smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks...
...screen as the final credits roll for Being There, for which director Hal Ashby has coaxed terrific performances from Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. These dots are tiny in contrast to those on the "filler" reel before Electric; they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over the top of the frame...