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...spendthrift habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows a twelve-year-old prosecutor trying his elders for saddling his generation with a crushing debt burden...
...MAMMOTH HUNTERS, Auel...
...instead of the swashbuckling terrorist Tuttle, was taken away to be tortured and killed. Dear me, mistakes like this will happen in the Anglo-fascist fantasy world of Brazil. Imagine that Nazi Germany had colonized Britain after winning World War II, and you can visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English temperament was forced to accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations...
...mammoth gains that megamergers create have aroused suspicions that some players may be getting advance word of pending deals and profiting from inside information. For example, ABC stock jumped from $66 a share to $105 earlier this year in the month before the announcement of its acquisition by Capital Cities. General Foods rose from $70 a share to $120 before it was bought by Philip Morris. Last Wednesday the price of RCA stock jumped $10.375, to $63.50, hours before the merger was announced...
Above all, he has provided them with magnitude. Nearly all the images in the show are slightly larger than life-size; some are more than 6 ft. high. Avedon has worked in this scale before, notably in the mammoth prints shown at his 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Here size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer...