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This idea, of course, was not new to the Soviets--after all, they paid attention to what the Republican Party was doing. But I had thought of a twist. I would frame the propaganda in the form of a mini-series, cast some good-looking actors, and give it a glossy look. It would be of such high quality and so entertaining in its own right that the masses would never imagine that they were being deceived...
...expected, it took a while for Vinton to realize the inventive possibilities of his sticky form. The first half of the Festival, sadly omitting his Oscar-winning short Closed Mondays, gets bogged down in an interminable mini-documentary explaining his method and then some truly clayey early pieces, in which his artists inexplicably try to make the figures look and act just like real people, which is silly, because real people can't explode their heads and come up smiling and these figures can and it seems silly to waste the talent...
THIS WEEK IS SHAPING UP TC be one of those rare periods when the citizens of a country engage in some serious self-reflection. The United States is settling its collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort...
...UNITED Nations and its partisans have been mounting an energetic campaign to protect the world organization from the treatment it gets in an upcoming television mini-series. The reason? The series--Amerika--is a demented fantasy of an America cowed by a Soviet-controlled contingent of dark-skinned U.N. "peace-keeping" troops...
...lingerie departments of the nation's clothing stores these days: racks and racks of short, stiff crinolines flaring out into the aisles. By spring they will be bobbing along the streets, impeding entry into buses and buildings and providing the most radical change in silhouette since the mini and the maxi. Does a woman in the '80s really want to look like a Frisbee? Does she care to be the focus of frank stares every time she sits down? Where on earth, in this era of female liberation and utilitarian dress, did these saucy, sexy, impractical throwbacks come from...