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...night, New York City, Las Vegas, Tokyo and other cities across the industrialized world are a carnival of wastefully blazing lights. In Rome's Villa Borghese park, thousands of street lamps glow wanly in bright morning sunshine. Thermostats are set at stifling levels in many German homes. From Berlin to Osaka, families pile into their cars for weekend pleasure jaunts, clogging highways and creating hellish traffic jams. Just three years after the Arab oil embargo that shook consuming nations and threatened economic disaster, most of the world's consumers seem to have forgotten that an energy crisis ever...
...cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera pans to the bucket precariously perched on the rigging directly above her blonde head. The tension-building devices are strictly conventional--reminiscent of the contrived suspense of a made-for-TV movie--yet the impact of the bloodbath...
...clear, cold night last week, the twin-towered red brick façade of Oslo's city hall flickered in the glow of torches borne by thousands of demonstrators. Inside, an audience of more than 1,000 jammed the auditorium. To a standing ovation, Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, co-founders of the Ulster Peace Movement (TIME, Sept. 6) arrived to accept the Norwegian People's Peace Prize...
...seated and half-length figures, part human, part mannequin, in these large prints are lost in private, unidentifiable thoughts. They are mysterious, often disturbing and erotic images, rich in psychological overtones. To several of the partly nude female figures Dine has added genitals painted in watercolor so that they glow like jewels...
...warm amber glow on Mr. Smith's face and its pivotal position suggest the erroneous concept held in Western nations of the great white lord who brings vision and hope to the faceless, amorphous masses of natives...