Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year's campaigns are the dirtiest in recent memory. "The issue space in people's heads is getting smaller," says Field. "The negative ads are the ones that stick." The forum for most of the mudslinging is television. In big statewide races, staging rallies and pressing the flesh in traditional "retail campaigns" are becoming dying arts; saturating the airwaves with pungent, simplistic 30-sec. "hit ads" is considered more efficient and effective...
...becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...
...Brazil, the Headroom movie posits a futuristic Britain addicted to television. The evil Network 23 has invented Blipverts, super-effective commercials that have an unfortunate tendency to make couch potatoes explode. Unfortunately for Network 23's plans, their top-rated investigative reporter--played by Matt Frewer, the flesh behind the Headroom fantasy--is trying to uncover the story...
Surveys show that Ronald McDonald is the second most recognized figure among tots next to Santa Claus. It's hardly surprising that from time to time Junior decides he won't be happy until he meets Ronald McDonald in the flesh--there are 50 constantly touring the country--and Pee-Wee won't stop crying until he gets to Burger King for a Luke Skywalker commemorative glass...
...plundered its natural resources, "often bequeathing decay rather than development." The series contains no on-camera interviews, just Mazrui's narration set against striking shots of African life and landscapes. The rhetoric is sometimes excessive ("the collective burial of a people," "Western sharks in search of a pound of flesh"). And Mazrui's approach can be annoyingly simplistic: his blaming, for instance, virtually all African violence on weapons imported from the West and his naive romanticizing of Gaddafi...