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...figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending crusade against wicked Skeletor. So far, Mattel has produced 34 other characters, six companion creatures, nine vehicles and three hideouts. This season's oddest new villain: Stinkor, a skunk-striped meanie who actually smells bad. His counterpart: Moss Man, who exudes a pine scent...
...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...
...girl sitting next to me, a short hairy creature with the most annoying laugh I have ever heard in my life, a dry croaking hiccup which made it sound as if she were trying to cough up a large and unwieldy insect. Unfortunately, she found her shorter, hairier traveling companion a source of boundless levity, and by the time we landed it was all I could do to keep from plunging my plastic cheese knife into...
When she stepped outside, the first intruder grabbed her. Next, he let his companion in the front door, and then they forced Trowbridge back into the apartment. There the two men sexually assaulted her and stole her belongings...
Miyake's face creases into the sort of smile that should come in a gift box. "Great!" he says, grabbing his companion in a tight hug, as if some souvenir sphinx had suddenly surrendered a secret. To all the patrons in the hotel lobby, it looks as if old friends were reuniting at the end of a long trip; in fact, any voyage with Issey Miyake is ongoing. "Next time I make like that, and you do something different again," he laughs. "Always fresh, always different, always challenge. That way is best, I think. Want...