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...death suffered or inflicted. Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; 431 pages; $50) is richly shrewd about the actuality and legend of cowboys, doing justice to both in a commentary by Russell Martin and in photographs that are by turns haunting and as garish as Technicolor...
...flipped a switch and Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was suddenly projected, in garish colors, on a ten-foot television screen. "But I thought the Mona Lisa was a painting," objected one astonished tourist. "Not any more," responded the guide. "We feel that if videotape had been around in Leonardo's time, he would have used it." The tour moved on. "On the next screen we have the fabulous Winged Victory...
...Hong Kong (1236 Mass Ave): Odds are that you have heard of the Kong. If you haven't, you soon will--and odds are even higher that by the end of the summer you will have sampled the Kong's notorious. Scorpion Bowl Droves flock to the garish pink building every day of the week except Monday, when it's closed. The first floor is primarily Chinese food and the second is a bar (read: chaos) with masses of students from all over Boston edging for an open space in which to sip their Bowl with 10 ounces of liquor...
...whirling bird is intended to attack such segments of the U.S. civilian population as happen to get unruly-though in these placid times the film makers are hard-pressed to find a domestic threat worthy of their hardware. The principal business of Blue Thunder is to offer a garish and entirely unpersuasive audiovisual demonstration of this preposterous machine in action...
...looks are no coincidence but rather part of an elaborate send, up of what Australians love to hate-the British and the Americans. Jackie's heartless, penny-pinching pub-tending mother (Margo Lee) is a dead ringer for Margaret Thatcher. Clad in a garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television...