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...Spanish film maker who died this July at 83, conventions of content and form were mere pieties, best approached with a straight razor and a straight face. He had been, after all, one of the merry pranksters of surrealism, spiking café chat in bohemian Paris with cute conspiracies like sneaking a pornographic movie into a children's matinee. Back in the 1920s, the aesthetics of atrocity had worthy, powerful antagonists: the church, the government, the standard of fettered sexuality. Too soon though, the bad-taste revolution proved successful, and today the fractured visual logic of Un Chien Andalou...
...wanted to take advantage of this time and allow Laxalt's committee to begin work without official sanction. "I wasn't comfortable with that," said Laxalt. "I felt if we were going to move ahead, let's do it in a straightforward fashion and not be cute about it." He told the President on Thursday he wanted explicit authorization to get under...
...though accomplished, isn't worth the effort. Traditional, sappy, and restrained, the excerpt is uninspiring and seems to make the dancers less careful about their technique. Although they briefly spice up the atmosphere now and then by switching the dancers to Flamenco style, the general effect is nothing but cute...
...Deal may be the classic Hollywood art form, but crossbreeding is the way to an audience's heart. In the entertainment industry, nothing "new" succeeds like last year's success, with a twist. Star Wars? It is like 2001, but cute. E.T.?Disney meets Alien. Flashdance? MTV with a plot. The same, but different. In network television, with its older, more sedentary and conservative audience, the emphasis is on same. Virtually all of the 22 series making their debuts on ABC, CBS and NBC in the next month are clones or hybrids of other TV shows...
When asked "What does he look like?" most people, male or female, will answer with specifics--height, hair color, eye color and so forth. Asked, "What does she look like?" one tends to preface the same facts with a value judgment; "Well, pretty cute." "Actually, she's sort of ugly." The invisible subtext runs through everything, like any other type of discrimination people have grown up with; what matters first in a woman is her looks, her rating as a sexual creature or as a member of the amorphous sub-sex of the unattractive...