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...wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would fuse into meaning in the spectator's eye. So it is with the sculptor in Act II of Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term for Seurat...
...tune, he accused Mondale of endangering young men by agreeing with President Reagan's Central American policies. (Mondale counters that he would keep only a small military force in the region and would not support the contra rebels in Nicaragua.) A Hart television ad showed a slowly burning fuse and asked, "Remember Viet...
Mondale counterattacked with his own ad showing a red phone ringing ominously in the night, as a voice asked voters whether they really wanted an "unsure, unsteady, untested hand" to answer. Declared Cuomo's political counselor, Timothy Russert: "The red phone beat the burning fuse. The phone symbolized Mondale's maturity. The fuse was hot and uncertain and excitable, and I think it blew up in Hart's face...
...example came in New York's primary, where Gary Hart spent $800,000 on TV and radio ads, yet finished far behind Walter Mondale (who spent about $350,000) and barely ahead of Jesse Jackson (who spent nothing). Some critics judged in retrospect that Hart's burning-fuse commercial was not only unbelievable in its implication that Mondale is warlike but also "out of synch" with Hart's efforts to put himself forward as a visionary leader. Said Consultant David Sawyer, who advised John Glenn: "Hart's TV spots did not reinforce the basic issues...
Hart intensified his attacks on Mondale after polls of New York voters found that fewer than one in five favored military aid to Central America. A Hart ad showed a slowly burning fuse and asked, "Remember Viet Nam?"; his speeches warned that either "Reagan's or Mondale's" policies would lead to dead G.I.s...