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...much criticized use of gore in Dawn of the Dead actually points up a primary virtue of horror films. Everytime somebody blasts off the side of a zombie's head, audiences cheer. Why shouldn't they? What else can you do to flesh-eating zombies? Monster movies reduce every conflict to black vs. white, good vs. evil--that's the point. But they're fantasies--they invoke the supernatural; they don't pretend that that's how it is in real life, the way John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies do. You can't rehabilitate the alien or the zombies...
...obligatory set piece, a reprise of Rocky's triumphal jog up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, now looks like a tableau out of Cecil B. De-Mille: as Bill Conti's musical theme reaches celestial heights, hundreds of young disciples gather to cheer Stallone on. One almost expects him to wrap himself in the flag; perhaps he is saving that pièce de résistance for Rocky...
...seat O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, the orchestra has become all but a sellout, precisely by avoiding safe subscription fare. "A concert hall doesn't have to be a museum," says Davies. "What's exciting is if somebody starts booing and somebody else answers with a pretty loud cheer." Especially if, as in St. Paul, the cheers far outnumber the boos...
Margaret Thatcher's achievement in becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister is writ large with irony. Thursday's general election brought no cheer to feminists: Britain's only avowed lesbian MP lost her seat, as did Labour's most important woman politician, popular cabinet minister Shirley Williams. The new House of Commons contains the smallest contingent of women since 1950. As for Mrs. Thatcher herself, some regard her views on the role of women in society as being just about on a par with the Ayatollah Khomeini...
George Bush joined the Republican scorecard in the race for the Presidency yesterday, as more than 300 supporters jammed the Sheraton-Boston Hotel to cheer on the sixth GOP candidate on the campaign trail...