Word: cuteness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy all prove themselves agreeably capable of acting their age. Each of them has a following, which, taken together, could amount to a large audience. That's all right. One can think of adolescent fads a lot less cute than Lowe and his friends...
...Harvard Square Theater Complex ( Church St.) stuffs five screens into its small three story structure. It used to feature daily double showings centered around some cute theme, but this was canceled during renovations last year. The manager says the double flicks may start up against this summer. In the meantime you can catch first run and weekend late night shows there...
...self- fulfilling gush about art investment. It would like live heroes as well. But it wants them to be like heroes on TV, fetishized, plentiful and acquiescent. If Pollock was John Wayne, the likes of Haring 'n' Basquiat resemble those two what's-their-names on Miami Vice: cute cops, a designer avant-garde whose "newness" has all the significance of a goat-cheese pizza...
...knew what it was getting in Serra's commission. It saw artist renderings and models. It did not expect a cute bronze of Peter Pan. Serra's massive walls and propped assemblies of steel and lead plate are among the most familiar images in recent American sculpture -- blue-collar minimalism, a pugnacious combination of muteness with extreme manipulations of space. Nobody could call his work accessible, but there is no denying his influence on other artists. To take only one example, the black granite notch of Maya Ying Lin's monument to the Viet Nam dead in Washington...
...built-for-comfort Meredith scatters ashes across the stage, the built-for-speed Gifford does end runs with a vacuum cleaner. Meredith calls it typecasting: "There's a lot more of Felix in Gifford than there is in me. He hurts easily." Anyway, says Meredith, "he's so cute in his little apron...