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Perhaps Fellini, who like his stars is in his 60s, is copping a generational plea: "Our kitsch is better than your kitsch." Maybe he means for us to see the faltering but brave Amelia and Pippo as surrogates for himself, still worthy of sober interest, maybe even moral admiration, although the headlines now go to younger directorial stars. Certainly he insists on pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes...
Coles has a nettlesome habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene...
Performance pieces included selections from her earlier works such as "Let XX," "Gravity's Angel," "Sweaters," and her famous single "O Superman," as well as selections from her forthcoming film Home of the Brave. She managed to captivate the audience for the entire hundred-odd minutes for which she performed...
...State George Shultz. Lugar spent much of his energy at the meeting trying to convince the skeptical majority of his Executive Branch audience that they should not give up too soon on support for the unobstructed democratic process in the Philippines. The normally terse Senator spoke movingly of brave souls like an ordinary Filipino housewife who confronted armed thugs in order to defend her ballot. He urged the White House not to resign itself to a Marcos victory too quickly...
...future, it was too early to make plans, he said. Because he has fallen far behind in his chosen field, mathematics and computer technology, he acknowledged that it would be "something of a problem" to return to his old line of work. But nobody who knew the brave, resourceful and clever young man of conscience in Moscow in former times doubted that he would find ways to fulfill his dreams...