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More original programming is on the way. This week Nick at Nite offers Tattertown, a cartoon pilot from raffish animator Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) about a world where discarded objects come to life. Nickelodeon, meanwhile, is developing a sitcom about kids at a dude ranch, as well as a new show for preschoolers, Eureka's Castle, that will use animation, puppets and live action to explore problems like being afraid of the dark...
...nobody drew the birds, bees and flowers better than Albrecht Durer, the German master who died in 1528, leaving a legacy of nature illustrations that have been admired (and copied by forgers) for centuries. Albrecht Durer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance by Fritz Koreny (New York Graphic Society; 278 pages; $75), compares such renowned works of botanical and zoological observation as Hare and The Large Piece of Turf with their imitations. The result is a scholarly view of authentication problems in 16th century German art and a wondrous glimpse into the beginnings of scientific representation...
...working-class town in West Germany's Ruhr district, a U.S. A-10A fighter plane suddenly plummeted out of the low overcast, its twin jets screaming. "It raced over my head at a height of about 15 meters ((roughly 50 ft.)) and came down like a huge fireball," said Fritz Hesse, who was working on his roof...
...compelling narrative thrust. It traces moving images from the shadow plays of ancient Java and the magic-lantern shows of the early 19th century to the big parade of movie stars, social trends and industrial eruptions. Some periods are re-created with elaborate props: a looming female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a railway car stocked with projector and films to recall the propaganda push of early Soviet cinema, a Salvador Dali collage with the probing eyes he designed for Hitchcock's Spellbound, and a couch inspired by Mae West's lips. Elsewhere, actors stroll about in character...
Reagan says "You'll never hear that 'L' word--liberal--from" Dukakis, and he's right. Dukakis says this election "isn't about ideology." George McGovern isn't on the ballot this year. And George Bush won't be facing Fritz Mondale come November. He'll be facing a competent, hardworking statesman not far from the mainstream of American politics. Republicans won't win by pinning labels on Dukakis...