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Together they skewer just about everyone and everything in sight, first by mocking the 1950s feminine ideal of the "pretty little thing," then by carrying the motif through the next three decades. The 50s woman parades before the audience in fashion-induced euphoria, troubled only by the urgent need to find a husband. But the 60s woman is not so superfluous: she's the "active pretty little thing," equipped with a "pretty little scarf" to keep out tear gas. The 70s bring the "independent pretty little thing," liberated to the point that she can say "fuck you" over and over...
Unofficial entrepreneurs have joined in the fun. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "When there's a national festival, the hucksters are there. That's nothing new." Pens, place mats, puzzles, ashtrays, comic books and even thermometers will carry a constitutional motif. Hilton Hotels will place copies of the Constitution along with Gideon Bibles in each room. For Saturday-morning viewing, ABC Television has produced a series of Constitution Bicentennial Minutes, featuring Bugs Bunny and friends...
...comparing any Salle image with its art source -- his feeble paint-by- numbers rendering of details from Gericault and Ribera, for instance -- one is struck by his inability to put any vitality at all into the relation between the motif and the traces of the hand, to create an interesting shape, or even to model a form convincingly. But there is an out: Salle's graphic ineptitude is praised by his fans as a kind of fallen representation, as though it were a critique of affectlessness. Thus his work is credited with exposing what it merely embodies. This...
...capsule's contents reflect the theme of freedom and liberty in 1986. ABC will donate tapes of this year's Liberty Centennial celebrations. The Associated Press will compile the year's wire service stories dealing with the motif; United Press International will develop a chronology of 1986 events that reflects the concept of freedom. There will be taped greetings from President Reagan and U.S. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, essays by children from 50 states and memorabilia from the 1986 Liberty extravaganzas...
...primitive nature of the new design has a strong "Flintstone motif," said Aaron D. Edison...