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...device serves two functions. First, it gives Shelter an intellectual gloss: Mick or Keith's contemplation suggests the burden of self-consciousness, a filmed discourse on the relation of self to representation, etc., etc. Naturally this is all glitter; what such a schema really does here is allow the filmmakers to cut another slam-bang rock 'n' roll number in every four or five minutes without risking a stylistic break. That way the sequences of Melvin Belli negotiating for the Stones, virtually the only explanation tendered in the entire film concerning who is responsible for what, are not permitted...
...TIME's article on Anwar Sadat seemed to gloss over his plotting with the Nazis as though it were a youthful prank...
This blind spot enables Dumont to gloss over the real angonies of policy decisions. With the effective aid of hindsight he can confidently, even arrogantly, quantify any situation. As predictability is a solid test of analytic accuracy. Dumont could have better conveyed his self-confidence with some forecasts about Cuba's sugar production. Instead he wavers, refusing to commit himself in this controversial area...
...Metal Eaters." Similarly, Kosygin's dry statistics stripped much of the gloss from Brezhnev's promise that Russian consumer needs would be "more fully met." It will take until 1975 before 64% of Soviet families have refrigerators (compared with 32% today) and 72% have television sets and washing machines. That would be a considerable improvement, even if all goes according to plan-which has not happened in the past. But it still means that four years from now, more than a quarter of all families will still be without such appliances...
Anyway. The magazine materialized last June. It's called Rags. A cheap number-40c-and a monthly, printed on plain of newsprint, it's unabashedly trying to make it just like a Rolling Stone. "As befits its name, Rags eschews the gloss of traditional fashion books," reports shiny-panted Time. Which is to suggest, perhaps unfairly, that in rejecting the slick road to fashion, Rags and Rolling Stone may have inadvertently established a duller shade of slick themselves...