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...ways to tell the difference between style and flair in moviemaking: style reveals; flair displays. Style insinuates; flair asserts. Style is witty; flair is clever. Style seems simple; flair looks facile. Style is a bolt of lightning; flair is a ripple of Mylar. Style advances the story; flair replaces the story. Style connects images, scenes, moods, morals; flair offers a series of showy epiphanies. Style is a cloak for character; flair is a designer-jeans commercial. Style finds the right thing; flair uses everything. Style is the expression of the born moviemaker; flair is the product of the compulsive movie...
...Billion by 1985. Projected factory sales of blank tape for the next few years. Big Mylar and big moola. Since most VCR owners now buy just 20 tapes, this figure allows not only for expectations of greater machine sales but an increase in demand for prerecorded cassettes...
Made largely of tough lightweight plastics -Kevlar fiber struts, Mylar sheathing, a Lucite windscreen, all from the project's sponsor, Du Pont-Challenger weighs only 217 lbs., excluding Ptacek, who had managed to diet down...
...garden, and walking through it one seems to float. Such an image could become excruciatingly kitschy (one cutout angelfish would do it), but what preserves the balance and tightness of Pfaff's work is her daring, uninhibited sense of abstract form. Those squiggles and meshes, bits of screening, Mylar and Day-Glo plastic work together beautifully as aerial handwriting. In her work there is not a trace of the hesitation and nostalgia, the feeling of being becalmed, that gave the '70s their grayish tone. A few more artists like her, and the '80s might be an interesting...
Backing up the scientific ranks will be 20,000 amateurs with cardboard-box viewers or aluminized Mylar screens sold at fast-food outlets. (Without such precautions, sun gazers risk damaging their eyes.) Some will even usher in the event at a roc-'n'-roll celebration on an old armed forces base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total...