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...oldest fresh force in rock, this new Bowie seems to share few qualities with old Ziggy, the polymorphous camp extravaganza, the most gilded lily of rock's gaudiest age. What binds these identities together is a gift that is cerebral and carnal, frequently danceable and always entertaining. His former crony Lou Reed has sung about it. Deep down inside, Bowie has a rock-'n'-roll heart...
...woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting her gaudiest remnants on fire sale, seems so different from Warsaw. But the enforced meanness of its spirit makes the displaced Poles feel almost at home...
...bailout, dwarfing the $250 million Lockheed loan guarantee of 1971, is designed to save from bankruptcy the nation's third largest automaker and tenth ranking manufacturer (1978 sales: $13.6 billion). With Chrysler's losses mounting daily, its 1979 deficit is almost sure to exceed $1 billion, the gaudiest splash of red ink in U.S. corporate history...
Backstairs at the White House (Mondays, starting Jan. 29, NBC) is the gaudiest illustration yet of why many TV viewers would rather undergo root-canal work than tune into downtrodden NBC. Intended as a keyhole view of 20th century American Presidents, this nine-hour miniseries quickly proves to be a trivialization of history. In lieu of incisive political drama or even licentious fun, NBC offers a cavalcade of boring anecdotes and a rogues' gallery of often laughable cameo performances. In Backstairs, power is not an aphrodisiac but a soporific...
America's grandest, gaudiest floor show hits the Sierra Nevada