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...Will Hong Kong's status be reinforced by Disneyland? Or is the replication of the Magic Kingdom a desperate exercise in copycat tourism that ignores Hong Kong's special attributes in favor of a dated American formula that will bring scant benefit? I know of no such equivalent in or around Monte Carlo?or, for that matter, in Nice and Cannes, both of which combine glamour, history, good food, a healthy climate and the flamboyant luxury of megayachts. By all means bring a casino to Hong Kong. But make it Monte Carlo, not Macau, which today has little more visual...
...release. "But the original novel"--Lassie Come-Home, written by Eric Knight in 1940--"was set in Yorkshire, and it had a certain prewar British integrity about it. In current children's films, you have to be ironic to reach the parents in the audience. It's a profitable formula, but this film won't appeal to one audience over the heads of another. It looks the whole audience...
...report Painter Katz as saying, "I'd like to have style take the place of content, or the style be the content ... I prefer it to be emptied of meaning, emptied of content." I find this a strange goal for an artist. It leads to a formula for artistic and spiritual nothingness. John Risdell New York City
...legislation establishes declining annual deficit targets until the goal of a balanced budget is reached in fiscal 1991; failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General Accounting Office, must calculate and order the necessary cuts under a specified formula. The twelve Congressmen, all of whom voted against the bill, argued that this gave to the Comptroller broad powers of the purse that the Constitution does not permit Congress to relinquish...
...idealistic teacher. The unresponsive institution. The brave deaf children struggling to overcome their handicap. The particularly difficult case. The breakthrough. The setbacks. The ultimate triumph. Children of a Lesser God omits nothing from the formula that guarantees a work to be routinely moving...