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...still--in, for example, a scene that reunites Truman with his long-absent father--the film reaches an improbable emotional intensity. The two men hug; the folks in a bar cheer; Christof cues the swelling music and crinkles with paternal pride; and the grand fakery of it all works its sorcery on the heart. In one scene you get the truth in an actor's lie, the art in the oldest melodramatic tricks, the gotcha! of cinema's power to create a simpler, more beautiful world on screen. This is pure moviemaking, naked and irresistible...
...wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been blitzing viewers since November; he hired Bill Clinton's pollster, Ted Kennedy's media man, a cadre of 29 policy wonks and even a platoon of temps to cheer at one of his speeches. "Davis is destined to finish third," Governor Pete Wilson predicted late last month in an interview with TIME, "simply because he can't compete financially...
...images of the future. In 1903 William Wallace Cook, a newspaperman and free-lance writer, published A Round Trip to the Year 2000, in which robots known as "muglugs" displace human workers, sending them to live out a miserable existence somewhere in the Midwest (a vision not designed to cheer chambers of commerce in the heartland). Voracious capitalism has triumphed. The "Air Trust" sells the very air people breathe; the "Sun Trust" forces the public to pay even for sunshine...
Both People and Time are now in the indelicate position of honoring their votes or asserting editorial control, and we at Dartboard have a bad feeling about what will happen. Still, it is fun while it lasts: go cheer on Hank the Dwarf and start purchasing that Ataturk memorabilia...
...start of the successful War of Independence is warmly cheered in Massachusetts and Maine, its former annex, on the third Monday in April, with re-enactments, fairs and a marathon to mark the event. The towns of Lexington and Concord plan their year around Patriot's Day. Even people beyond New England sometimes join in the fun: when Patriot's Day falls on April 15, accountants in New York also cheer, because the federal government allows the taxes of New Yorkers as well as Bay State residents to be filed a day later...