Word: plunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe Alan Rudolph should just plunk himself down in front of a video console, electronically colorize some old film noir favorite of his and forget it. Instead, the writer-director keeps trying to revitalize that shadowy, romantic style of the '40s by putting a hip spin on it. This strategy worked pretty well for him two years ago in Choose Me, shot in a surreal light and featuring a script that had the giddy loquacity of a liars' convention...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
...critics are unimpressed. "Kitsch," some of them proclaim. The works, says Los Angeles Sculptor Richard Oginz, "strike a Norman Rockwell note." Indeed, Johnson is not about to knock Rodin off his pedestal, but his garden-variety American archetypes are a welcome-and welcoming-relief from "plunk art": find a plaza, acquire something made of huge welded beams, then plunk it down...
...COMMUNITIES around America work to shut down video game arcades, their elected representatives are playing and more with PAC-men. These PAC-men don't swallow quarters; they plunk bigger bucks into pockets of Washington politicians, a far more dangerous type of gaming that should be restricted immediately...