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...SCREEN PAINTING by Miyeko Murase (Braziller; $150). The aphorism "Poetry is painting, painting is mute poetry" is exemplified in these 37 exquisite screens painted between the 15th and 19th centuries. A boldly abstract rendering of blue irises from the Edo period is as striking and modern as a Matisse cutout...
Borrowing an idea from British police who noted a decline in shoplifting when life-size cutouts of bobbies were placed in stores, three Kroger food stores in Dallas have installed "scarecrooks" in high-theft areas on their shopping floors. Under each 6-ft. cardboard cutout is the slogan SHOPLIFTING IS A CRIME. Though no would-be thief is likely to mistake the cardboard coppers for the real thing, the cutouts help convey the message that pilfering is illegal. Says Kroger security director Charlie Tyner, "It's a startling way to say the same old thing...
...long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout. You sit there and listen to the primal sound of the water whooshing...
Ronald Reagan is generally regarded as the most popular President in recent history. But according to Washington photographers who sell pictures of people posing with life-size cardboard cutouts of the Presidents, George Bush has surpassed the Gipper. One day last week, for every 25 people who asked to pose with the Bush cutout, four opted for the cardboard Reagan...
Jackson's hot-selling Moonwalker is an eight-segment 94-min. tour through . the Glove's wide-ranging but uneasy imagination. Besides a lively montage of Jackson's career ("a retrospective of 24 years of hits"), Moonwalker includes some nifty clay and cutout animation, as well as a "centerpiece" spun out around Michael's superbly spooky song Smooth Criminal. Jackson becomes, literally, what so many people have already accused him of being: a special effect. All of Moonwalker is heavily shrouded in fantasy -- of persecution, of reprisal, of reclaiming lost innocence -- but compromised by its own willful and slightly desperate...