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...Ireland gave the world Van Morrison; in the '70s, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats; in the '80s, U2 and Sinead O'Connor. Now there's Black 47. The group's new album deals with such subjects as class warfare and potato famine, and their new video Funky Ceili is getting heavy play on MTV. Then there's the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, whose new album Songs from the Rain is both intelligent and evocative, full of the kind of arena-size emotions that are likely to seduce large audiences. And the new compilation Straight Outta Ireland -- whose title plays...
...MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN (JILL CLAYburgh) abruptly leaves home and family for no reason she cares to articulate. Her husband (Albert Finney) mopes and eats mayonnaise-and-potato-chip sandwiches. Their younger daughter drops out of high school. An older daughter drops back in on their South Carolina home, married, pregnant and edgy. The domestic disorders of the Odom family are shown quite realistically in RICH IN LOVE. But they are not comically or dramatically painted by writer Alfred Uhry and director Bruce Beresford (the Driving Miss Daisy team) as the movie drifts to a predictably sweet conclusion. Its heart...
ESPIONAGE: CIA's Political Hot Potato...
...consequence of letterform democracy typography now tilts in a direction that conservative designers of the last century would abhor. Faddish fonts dominate the media for a few months, than grow obsolete. Last year you could find Adobe's "Lithos," "Industria," and "Insignia splashed across potato chip bags, MTV, HBO, and the ads in this newspaper. It becomes possible to date to document by the type it contains. "windsor? So woody Allen, so '87. Copper plate?. Already retro by the summer of 1992. "Arcadia?". Late November 1991. "About Faces" contain non of these...
...right, there were a few certifiable trendlets in '92 -- inflatable bikinis, Virgin Mary sightings, potato-spelling jokes -- but most were too sickly and feeble to grow. Divorcing one's parents looked big for a week or so, sparking hopes of a real estate boom as 10-year-olds sought their own condos. Menopause mania proved to be a flash, so to speak, in the pan, and "smart drugs" couldn't compete with the far more numerous dumb ones...