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...which Elvis explains his Army ribbons are beguiling. The sound quality has been spruced up to a nice funky shine, and the cuts are ordered chronologically, so there is a clear sense of Elvis' trajectory. Some of the tracks may stretch the definition of rare -- "previously only released from lacquer source" doesn't exactly have the full dimension of an epochal archaeological find -- but when a song sounds as supercharged as the outtake of King Creole, no one will fret about semantics...
Writer-Producer Anna Thomas and Writer-Director Gregory Nava have swathed their story in the amber sunsets of nostalgia. But this patina has the same effect on the winceable dialogue and agitated performances as lacquer on attic furniture. The farce of Destiny proves, yet again, that the road to dull is paved with bad pretensions...
...subject is not without its ironies. The Belle Epoque also saw the high- water mark of Japanese influence on French painting and decorative arts. The Western taste for lacquer, fans, screens and wood-block prints that began soon after Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 had become a mania in Paris by the 1890s. Japanism was all the rage. "I envy the Japanese the extreme clearness which everything has in their work . . . They do a figure in a few sure strokes as if it were as simple as buttoning your waistcoat." It is Vincent van Gogh writing from...
...exquisitely rendered village scenes and portraiture remain unparalleled. Soloninkin, 42, spent ten days painting Gorbachev's likeness on a 4 3/4-in. by 6-in. papier-mache box that had been slow baked in a 212 degrees F oven for nearly a month, and then covered with four coats of lacquer. The artist, who worked from stacks of news photographs, developed a rapport with his subject. "I really like the man," he says. "To me, he is much more an ordinary, down-to-earth person than some other leaders...
...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...