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...Government would act as procurer for the pasha. As the Washington cocktail waitress who catches the Emir's eye when she saves him from assassination, Hawn has some good funny moments dealing with the celebrity that follows from her heroism. But Director Herbert Ross stages farce awkwardly, and Buck Henry must have hated writing her closing speech, in which she soberly advises us to be well informed and vote conscientiously. Ms. Smith Goes to Washington is not his best vein. Or Hawn...
...fitting that the roadside scene was turned into a television commercial--calling up patriotic spirits in the process of selling some beer. The new American mood was, if anything, eminently commercial. Whether one described it as enlightened self-interest or shrewd crassness, the old American talent for making a buck was alive and well. And after a hard passage through the deepest recession since the '30s, Americans were not cavalier about the gift...
...very well at that. But we can find a better way to do it, a way that is more friendly and more conducive to people getting out of life what the hell they're trying to get out of it. You don't just want to make a buck. You want people to become better people...
Parents who try to buck the marketing efforts of the toymakers by even so much as thinking about more conventional gifts will need a division of G.I. Joes to hold their ground. When asked what they want for Christmas, most children will parrot the names of popular toys. Jennifer Been, 7, of Dallas advises that she wants a Cabbage Patch Kid, a Cabbage Patch stroller, a Fisher-Price camera and Lego building blocks. Says she: "Almost every girl in the second grade has a Cabbage Patch...
...insignia of an intangible fantasy. Capitalizing on this inspiration, Duncan's are symbolically restricted to role-playing and fantasy fulfillment, and his subjects snatched exclusively from the performing arts and inserted into a bare studio. Some of the stars are content to glide on their images: Makarova as a buck 'n' wing ballerina, Marcel Marceau as the eternal mime, and Joan Rivers in one of those flouncy $2,0000 haute couture gowns that on her becomes transformed into WalMart weekend specials...