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...miniseries, The French Atlantic Affair, which will have to face such competition as A Bridge Too Far (NBC) and Silver Streak (CBS). ABC just may win. Its mini-series aims so low that it does not even qualify as popcorn entertainment; the show is best watched while chewing sugarless gum...
...subject that the No. 2 talker could come up with. We are standing in my wood lot, surrounded by beechwood slash and camera cables. Since this is a carefully produced fantasy, I am wearing a DeKalb Seed Corn baseball cap, a green-and-black checked wool shirt, Ralph Lauren gum boots, and bib overalls with an alligator on the pocket.) "I see. Can you tell me, then, what you New Hampshire locals look for in a presidential candidate...
...else. Making a promo appearance in a Tel Aviv department store, Fawcett was mobbed so enthusiastically by fans who have followed her exploits by means of Hebrew subtitles that it took four bodyguards to whisk her to safety in an elevator, where she calmly blew bubbles with her bubble gum. But the jostling aggravated an ailing leg, and Fawcett was forced to hobble on crutches to watch a contest selecting her Israeli lookalike. About the only hosts unhappy over her tour were some members of the diamond exchange in Tel Aviv, where normally frantic trading halted while the golden girl...
...influenced by the so-called pictorialists, photographers given to arty blurs and poses. He also disliked the canonical painters of the American sublime, Bierstadt and Moran. "Indians and bears walking out to the edge of cliffs!" he snorts. "They'd paint the Half Dome as though it were chewing gum. No essence, no spirit?just scene painting." Adams' problem was to find a modernist vision in photography, one that corresponded to the postimpressionist avantgarde, whose works he had glimpsed at the San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. In 1930 he saw that vision in the work...
...makeshift panacea for the film's many other defects: it hastily clarifies plot points and states themes that Coppola has uncharacteristically failed to develop through action, dialogue and pictures. This strategy is as hopeless as trying to glue together a $30 million airplane with wads of bubble gum...