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...protagonists; photographs of the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986 and the San Francisco earthquake in 1989 dramatized events. Instead of a Man or Woman of the Year for 1982, TIME designated the computer as Machine of the Year. Amid growing anxiety about the environment, the "Endangered Earth" was named Planet of the Year...
John Glenn was floating back down to Earth after becoming the first astronaut to orbit the planet. Along with the other White House correspondents, I was waiting for the President's statement when I was suddenly summoned to the Oval Office. I was jubilant, believing Kennedy was going to reward me because of TIME's interest in space with an exclusive view of him talking by phone to Glenn...
...unspoken rule against entryway relationships, a rule which reflects the attitude that romance can be dangerous. At the same time, he admits that "it's easier to make a goddess out of one girl than it is to make something work with a real girl here on Planet Harvard." He sheepishly adds, "I guess I'm just not ready yet to leave the security of my romantic fantasy-land and enter the world of real relationships. Relationships are after all, always much less certain and potentially devastating to both people...
...houses sprout like tropical flowers; office buildings magically morph in a technique that might be called Virtual Realty. You have to watch carefully, for this is not an ingratiating film. It drops you into a foreign landscape without guidebook or translator. It is as cool and distant as the planet the Strangers come from. But, Lord, is Dark City a wonder...
...that's all right. We're in the realm of homage here, not plagiarism. What's not so good is the failure to make something arresting out of the way the dark side and the bright side of our minds interact. Movies like Forbidden Planet, which had neither the technical sophistication nor the skilled actors available to Levinson, worked their metaphors with a sort of leisurely literateness. Here, all meaning is simply lost in the hubbub, drowned out by the modern imperative to deliver a rush of action, however incomprehensible, every few minutes...