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With his concern for traditional workmanship and his devotion to organic simplicity, Nakashima tends to be disdainful of many of the latest generation of craftspeople. "They're trying to be Picassos," he says. "They've got all the ego and glitz and high gloss of modern art. But crafts don't need that. | They can stand up by themselves...
...comedy . . . it's a psychodrama . . . it's Batman! From the director and star of Beetlejuice comes a dead-serious gloss on the cave-dwelling superhero. Its producers will be happy, in this summer of the sequels, if moviegoers of the future remember Tim Burton's movie as Batman I. -- Broken Bat: the film reviewed...
Speaking with the same bluntness heard at past party plenums, Gorbachev did not gloss over the country's continuing shortages in food and consumer goods, but he also contended that many Soviets had forgotten how to work and "had * got used to the fact that they are often paid just for coming to work." His harshest words were targeted at bumbling bureaucrats. Gorbachev told how one ministry had imported almost 30 million medical syringes without ensuring that there were needles to go with them...
...portrait of life in a police state. This scientist who dabbles in black magic reaps only petty pleasures, while his demonic bargain leads him to mistrust friends, denounce colleagues, deny his beliefs and pledge to become a spy. Director Jiri Zizka, a Czech emigre, adds a mysterious high-tech gloss but stints on emotion. So do most of the cast, especially the bloodless David Strathairn in the lead. Still, beneath the expressionistic spectacle is an intimate, heartfelt and understandably angry play. W.A.H...
...designed to rally Mikhail Gorbachev's countrymen around his crusade. One notes the year Gorbachev came to power and began wiping away the grime of history that has dimmed Lenin's revolution. The other presents the current leader as maestro, winning a rousing "Bravo!" as he puts his own gloss on a score written by V.I. Lenin...