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They reached Anchorage at the end of March, tired, sick, a bit frightened and almost broke. The town literally rolled out a red carpet for them, but many Alaskans were openly skeptical of the group's prospects. "I'll give you three months!" one man shouted, which led Editor Bob Atwood to note in the Anchorage Times that "many of today's skeptics received the same reception when they arrived...
...toward her and through her like the phallus of death. As usual, De Palma tips his hat (and his hand) with Hitchcock allusions: Is this his third remake of Vertigo? As usual, the director's gliding camera announces its presence quietly but surely, like a cat on a carpet. His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis-a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale sleaze-so what...
...South African living in the U.S., I was thrilled to watch the Games. Unfortunately, my countrymen were denied the privilege of competing. Olympic officials should consider the economic support that South Africa provides its neighboring black countries, for whom the red carpet was laid out in Los Angeles. Perhaps Seoul in 1988 will welcome...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...
...message just before Reagan steps out the door to confront reporters. Sometimes the message teases him, sometimes it stresses a serious theme, always it seeks to break the tension for the performer. Deaver recently changed the format of the conferences, arranging for Reagan to stride down a long red carpet to the waiting reporters. Reagan seemed uncomfortable with the De Gaulle-like staging, but Deaver, ever the calculating imagemaker, persuaded him it looked more presidential...