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...solving it. From the moment Raging Bull introduces its three main characters, the moviegoer knows all there will be to know about them. Jake is the loner with a special, terrible gift he can't control; Joey is weak, loyal and scheming; Vickie is an enigma wrapped in gilt. The first hour of the film sets up the situation with a naturalistic vigor and cinematic resourcefulness unique to Scorsese. He knows precisely how to move the camera, dress a set, direct his splendid actors, underlay the music, edit to keep the viewer off guard and consistently impressed. But Raging...
...commercial series TV. The Ewing home at Southfork Ranch, where eight members of one of Texas' wealthiest families contrive to live under one roof, resembles a formicary of Neiman-Marcus showrooms. Every taste and no taste is represented here: satin pillowcases, china dogs, replicas of Steuben vases, gilt-framed imitations of Frederic Remington, bedroom closets that look like mink cemeteries. The budget for a typical Dallas episode approaches $700,000, one of the highest in TV, but all the money is on the screen...
...traffic, as one would expect from a klaxon-less society, is occasionally punctuated by the shriek of rubber tires under stress. Not a teen-ager anywhere. They are in the summer camps, we are told. The city is spotless and newly painted - a kind of Disneyland gilt. The Misha bear, with his Olympic-rings belt, smiles at one from everywhere. He began to get to me after a while - largely because of the mascot's eyes: astonished above the half-moon smile, they become the demented, loopy gaze of someone who has had too much Stolichnaya, the best Soviet...
...park, "if you approach the right people. If you can wait. If you can pay." The tariff is high. A Rolling Stones album may go for 80 rubles (about $120). Prices for mint-condition albums range from 50 to 70 rubles ($75 to $105), which makes record buying a gilt-edged hobby. Cassette tapes are cheaper (around 40 rubles), or even less if they have been copied from records, other tapes, or recorded off Voice of America broadcasts...
...skin-care products now being sold to men are as varied as anything ever served up to humanity's traditionally more wrinkle-conscious sex. Estée Lauder, purveyor of expensive creams, lotions and fragrances for women, offers a gilt-edged line of 70 different men's products under the Aramis label. Included in the list: pre-shave cleansing soaps to reduce razor drag and facial scrubs for use on the nose and forehead...