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...Film Odyssey: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This 1919 German silent directed by Robert Wiene is one of the few textbook classics that holds up as more than a curiosity piece. A lunatiesire-controlling-the-asylum tale with nordant echoes of disheaval in Weimar Germany. CHANNEL 2. Wednesday...
...John Irving's fine first novel, Setting Free the Bears, two Vienna University students plan to reform the world by liberating the animals in Vienna's Hietzinger Zoo. Now he offers the dislocated odyssey of an Iowa University graduate student who seems to be helplessly bound for self-destruction...
...Film Odyssey, Wednesday, 8:30, CHANNEL...
...Film Odyssey: Los Olvidados. A 1950 film by Luis Bunuel, at once a scathing portrayal of Mexican slum sub-culture, and a kick in the pants of liberal reformers who try to change men's hearts instead of concretely ameliorating social conditions. CHANNEL 2, FRIDAY...
...this fun will not come cheap. A basic Odyssey that includes twelve games and has circuitry as complex as that in a black-and-white TV set will go on sale in August for about $100-plus as much as $25 more for such optional attachments as an electronic shooting range. But Magnavox is convinced that it has a winner. The company expects that some 100,000 customers this year will want to buy a piece of the action on their home screens...