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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pixote is one of the most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...
...Koltanbar Engineering Co. of Troy, Mich., the future is now-glimpsed in all its three-dimensional glory on computer graphic screens behind a locked door a few steps from the company's executive offices. Koltanbar, with 1980 sales of $6 million, designs tooling equipment for the auto industry, and without the help of computerized design systems company executives are convinced that the future could be worrisome indeed for the firm...
...entertainment, it is education. Ten minutes of this film tell you more about the lives of the poor of the Third World than would ten courses in the political economy of underdevelopment. This is one of the most stirring movies you'll ever see, due to the graphic depiction of the aspects of poverty that you'd rather not think about. Pixote is a ten-year-old Brazilian who is sent to Reform School in an arbitrary police round-up. By the end of the film he is a murderer, a dope smuggler, a pimp, and only several months older...
...catalogue's descriptive paeans are seldom graphic about the weapons' deadly effects. Usually the language is willfully neutral: one shell that spews out steel pellets is merely "useful to engage massed infantry at close quarters." But peddler's enthusiasm can overcome the technocratic blankness. A 105-mm artillery piece is "robust" and its "lethal punch" is thus "ideal for use in tough limited war conditions in all climates." One transport is a "tough, roomy, dependable" aircraft, and the catalogue says of the AEL 4111 Snipe aerial drone for antiaircraft gunners: "The morale effect on weapons crews...
...writer of the Design section will be TIME Contributor Wolf Von Eckardt, 63, former architecture and design critic of the Washington Post. Ever since fleeing Berlin as a political refugee in 1936, Von Eckardt has been involved with the multifarious aspects of design as a typesetter, graphic designer, critic and author of such books as A Place to Live: The Crisis of the Cities (1968) and Back to the Drawing Board! Planning Livable Cities (1979). Von Eckardt was a recipient of one of the first Ford Foundation grants for writers in the arts, and is the holder of an American...