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More important, there's something offensive and embarrassing about the way Marshall fulfilled the Cleveland woman's fantasy. He led her to the Fantasy booth, a somewhat enlarged telephone booth hat blows air from its base and thus floats hundreds of dollars within he participant's reach. While the audience...

Author: By Richard J. Appel, | Title: The Happiness Hype | 4/26/1983 | See Source »

John Constable (1776-1837) remains the great example of the Englishness of English art. In his work even God is an Englishman. What other deity could have created those ripe interfolding fields, that mildly blowing air, that dewy sparkle on the face of a static world? Constable did to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wordsworth of Landscape | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

ALL OF WHICH brings up an important lesson in political accountability. Last year, many of those same European governments insisted that Israel be held responsible for the slaughter perpetrated by Christian Phalangist forces in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Israeli forces, though not directly implicated, shouldered much of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mafioso Politics | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

Linda Griffiths as Lianna does the lonely and pathetic look so well that we don't believe she could make such a radical change without a second thought. One expects, even wants, to see some moments of remorse or soul-searching. Lianna feels uncomfortable in the "My Way Tavern," a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming Out | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

In Vortex, the milieu is not punk but the sensibility is. The film-making couple known as Scott B and Beth B have worked in the New York new wave underground since the mid-'70s, shooting on Super 8 stock and exhibiting the results in punk nightclubs. Vortex, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: To Be Young, Gifted and Broke | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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