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Unlike America's first environmental awakening 20 years ago, touched off in 1970 by the vast bucolic gambol of the first Earth Day, this one is not defined by young idealists in ponytails and Birkenstocks. Nor is the movement focused primarily on developing a body of national environmental laws. Earth Day 1990 is driven from below by a wide assortment of Americans -- from housewives to chemical-plant workers and fishermen -- whose impatience with their fouled neighborhoods has forced cities and states to become legislative trendsetters and pass laws far stricter than the Federal Government's. "The environmental movement...
...adviser. "He never goes more than 40 miles an hour, but he never gets into any accidents." Dukakis unveiled last week a series of ! skillfully produced television ads, designed to convey passion without committing him to specifics beyond Democratic Party boiler plate. In one TV spot, picture-perfect toddlers gambol in front of an oversize flag as a toy piano plays America softly on the sound track...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...
...seats and expensive stereo equipment. Says Ed Rikess, owner of Southview Chevrolet in St. Paul: "The biggest option is the fanciest music system we can get." One out of four small pickups is sold with four-wheel drive, which provides greater traction on slippery roads and the freedom to gambol across beaches and hills...
Maybe all sequels should be made in 3-D. Imagine how tiresome it would be to see Jason, the monster in the hockey mask, polish off another group of dumb teenagers in an ordinary print. But this time, as they gambol through the woods whose mean paths he endlessly stalks, the sundry sharp and blunt instruments that are always ready to his hand come at them and the audience with a certain vivid super-reality. It is all so gruesome that horror turns to humor and the fun comes from the appreciation of being cleverly conned by Director Steve Miner...