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...Ewings. But, really, Dallas was what it criticized. Endlessly fascinated with the lives of the rich and pretty, the show looked rich and pretty too, like a Black Forest cake. With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty. It introduced viewers to the Greedy '80s, by establishing as a pop icon a Texas oilman who believed it's not what you get that matters, it's what you can get away with. In that age of winks and nudges, Trumps and Harts, the show understood that...
...spell VW but I got a Porsche, / 'Cause I'm a blond," Earth Girls sounds like a quick mix of E.T. and Beach Blanket Bingo. But it's really a revved-up tribute to postwar Hollywood style: the vulgar vitality, the supersaturated colors, the new aristocracy of teen taste. Gaud is in the details here. A glimpse in Valerie's refrigerator reveals a package of lo-cal Pop-Tarts; the movie is a hi-cal Pop-Tart to go. At the Deca Dance disco, a teenybopper flashes past wearing earrings cut from American Express cards. "They...
...posters. The carvings and furnishings from its marble and mosaic chapel, study and bedroom display a gaunt tension that clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue...
...Administrator William S. Gaud is understandably anxious to emphasize that foreign aid is not merely an exercise in misguided altruism. In fiscal 1968, for example, 96% of AID-appropriated funds were spent in the U.S. by recipient nations. And the agency can tick off an impressive list of U.S. industries that will suffer because of last week's House action: fertilizers will lose $125 million; fuels, $35 million; metals, $85 million; chemicals, $75 million; pulp and paper, $25 million; machinery and equipment, $150 million; vehicles and parts, $80 million; rail equipment, $20 million; rubber, $15 million; various other industries...
...contritely candid performance last week before the House Government Operations Subcommittee, Gaud pleaded mea culpa for AID's foulups. In defense of his agency, however, Gaud pointed out that in the seven years of its existence, Congress has never seen fit to put AID on a permanent basis, financing it from year to year on an ever-diminishing, hard-fought budget. AID is now operating on the slimmest yearly allowance ever ($1.9 billion). As a result, it has been unable to attract enough qualified personnel. In the wake of AID'S latest trouble, Congress may slash the agency...