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Turning to another pattern, cubism brings together the American fascinations with the trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...
...Jacobson's case, that meant characteristically garish activity. He bought and sold East Side apartment buildings, squired a constantly replenished stock of stewardesses and models half his age, protested his innocence to dazzled reporters and blew as much smoke as he could toward the prosecutors. Physical evidence at the scene of the crime was altered. Potential witnesses received threats. Rumors began floating that Tupper had been killed by drug-dealing associates. He had, in fact, once picked up $300,000 for helping a gang of old friends who smuggled hashish and marijuana through Kennedy Airport. None of these distractions...
...reality and artifice into felicitous collision. On the Zoetrope sound stages, Production Designer Dean Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously garish Technicolor-pulsating magentas and ambers that mirror the characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like...
...camera pans over the depressed faces of dining customers--and the lush orchestration conjures up images of black-tie dinner dances--and we get it again. By the time the set rolls back to reveal a giant montage of famous depression photos, Ross might as well have splashed a garish "ironic, get it?" across the screen...
...those Dallas debutantes and their patrician paters who can think of nothing more socially responsible to do with their millions than throw garish, three-month-long coming-out parties [Dec. 21], I'll bet they're all supplyside, trickle-down, cut-school-lunch-program Republicans. What about the poor? Let them eat leftover crab souffl...