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...elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
Harding believes that, in spite of current dim forebodings, the '80s will provide Blacks with opportunities to develop. Consciousness of past accomplishments and of the difficulties that others have faced can stimulate a movement that will remold the entire country's attitudes and prejudices. Whether this decade realizes his prediction is not absolutely essential; he has, and will instill in others, King's dream that "one day this nation will rise up [and] live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.'" As long as the dream...
...rump-bussing host and a couple of regular guests, Entertainer Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues as the lack of parking space at doughnut restaurants...
Lundgren sets out with the family Airedale, a dim, stubborn beast named Hudley who drinks by submerging his head and opening his mouth. An uncertain backwoods cunning helps the make-believe p.i. collar the lumber rustlers, so it's on to Florida to deal with Dr. Rabun's wife...
...stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...