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...things contributed to the general satisfaction: shrewd staging, superb timing, movements that were sophisticated for all their mock violence. The vividness of Championship Wrestling helps explain why the dance world is converging on Morris' doorstep. These works are not internalized essays in autobiography or homages to the modern dance canon. When he choreographs, Morris seems to have the audience in mind...
Minolta seemed unperturbed by the Nikon announcement. Said Minolta President Hideo Tashima: "Nikon's move is welcomed, although we expect the competition will intensify. The pie will grow bigger if everyone takes part." The field in fact may soon grow crowded. Canon, Japan's largest camera maker, is expected to introduce a similar 35-mm model later this year. Experts say Olympus and Ricoh are readying their own versions...
...Sorrentino, executive director of Rhode Island Planned Parenthood, was told by her pastor not to participate. The reason: she had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. When Sorrentino, 42, questioned the action, she was reminded that two Planned Parenthood clinics performed abortions in the state and that canon law decrees automatic excommunication for receiving an abortion or helping another to receive one. News of the action came out only last week when a local cable-television program aired a segment on abortion. During the show, Sorrentino heard a priest describe her as "Public Enemy No. 1 of all babies...
...reasons. It establishes Shepard as one of our finest screen-writers, and confirms the staying power of Altman, who has always been one of our most solid directors. Shepard's collaboration with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas, and now his work with Altman, hints at a possible Shepard film canon. Coppola doing Buried Child? Kurosawa's A Lie of the Mind? Kubrick's Curse of the Starving Class? A Lucasfilm version of The Tooth of Crime? The mind reels...
...Ways" sounds very much like a transitional album, a disc Young felt he had to make to establish his new down-home credentials. Only in an historical sense, then, like 1969's painfuly feeble and ruthlessly over-dubbed "Neil Young," is "Old Ways" a vital part of the Young canon...