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With its ever increasing penchant for mawkish soap opera and garish costuming (and no one is a bigger culprit here than Kulik), figure skating has become camp spectacle. Perhaps as a corrective, the judges of the men's competition sent the message that skating is indeed still an earnest sport where fierce athleticism matters. In other words, yes, the much discussed quadruple jump counts. Of the top medal contenders, only two skaters, Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, also a Russian, attempted one, and only Kulik landed his: a perfectly executed quadruple toe loop...
...took advantage of the design opportunities that dormitory life gave me. By my sophomore year, I had really begun to innovate. I discovered that my room could accommodate a large couch. I covered its garish pattern with a large blanket. I got a coffee table and hid a contraband DeLonghi toaster-oven in it. I never used the oven; it just made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show...
Time out! In a garish era for movies, does Brooks even have a shot with this Candygram? Its sentimental story has more cripples and victims than A Christmas Carol. And the first half an hour, a bit slow and unsure of its tone, plays like The Grinch from Greenwich Village. The film also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that...
...slowly. It looks to me like it's going to be a significant addition." The show is syndicated, and was created in part to help independent stations satisfy the new FCC regulations. John McDonough, the new Captain, looks disturbingly like Mr. French on Family Affair, and the set is garish, but the show has warmth and charm and maintains a slow pace...
...retrospective presents examples from nine separate projects worked on, often simultaneously, by Norfleet between 1974 and 1994. The photographs range from black and white architecture to 20x24 Polaroids of manipulated Kewpie dolls in garish colors. But what brings these images together is the photographer's astutely anthropological eye, which uses the camera to both dissect and direct human and animal categorization...