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...penny, in for a pound. If for some reason you feel compelled to make a movie about a sadomasochistic relationship, and you show an attractive young couple shopping for a riding crop, then somebody better get to use it before the end. As it happens, somebody did before they started editing this picture for an R rating. But all that is now playing is the decadent decor, some menacing portents and a pair of actors (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger) looking for their motivations in various chic Manhattan locales. Adrian Lyne, late of Flashdance, directed this silliness, and three writers...
...current crop includes specimens of most of the genre's major varieties: big merchandise giveaways (Price Is Right), sophisticated parlor games spiced with celebrities ($100,000 Pyramid), R-rated competitions between couples coaxed into revealing embarrassing personal secrets (The New Newlywed Game). But most of the new hits are an odd throwback to an era of simple games and conventional contestants. Wheel of Fortune, in which players spin a giant wheel to reveal letters in a hidden phrase, is a variation on the old word game Hangman. At least three current imitators feature similar fill-in-the- blank word games...
Winters, of course, is by no means the first 20th century artist to get interested in minor life-forms that need a microscope, or at least a magnifying glass, to reveal themselves. One thinks of the buds and pods that crop up in Paul Klee's watercolors, some of which are fanciful illuminations of Goethe's ideas about the Urpflanze, or "primal plant"; or of the extraordinary images of tiny natural structures taken in the 1920s by photographers like Karl Blossfeldt, in which a seedcase can rear up like a Gothic tower, suggesting all manner of analogies to architecture...
...Filipinos thronged to their polling stations, problems with voting registries began to crop up almost immediately. At the Araullo High School, a rambling wood- and-concrete structure on United Nations Avenue in midtown Manila, Policeman Oligario Remiruta, 46, lined up to cast his vote. The local poll chairman could not find Remiruta's name on the voters' list. By noon, 84 people at the school had received the same treatment...
...slices decisively through rich Iowa farmland, where the dirt is almost as dark as the two-lane asphalt ribbon that bisects the table-flat prairie west of Fort Dodge. The highway dips, then rises gently to Sac City, a town devastated by plunging crop prices, sagging spirits and the near collapse of rural America in the past decade...