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...Helmut Kohl isn't making any GATT demands that U.S. theaters show a fixed percentage of Wim Wenders movies, and Francois Mitterrand, mercifully, has not asked Clinton for a Godard quota. But for TV the Europeans have drawn a line in the sand: the E.C. now requires that 50% of each nation's programming be produced in the E.C. -- and the French, being French, go further, requiring that 40% of their TV shows be produced in France. Still, the glossy American product flutters in, and prevails. Beverly Hills, 90210 is wildly popular all over the Mediterranean; in South Africa, Major...
...Dust devil!" someone yells, and a stinging, 30-ft.-high spiral of sand, sagebrush, shale bits and a lizard or two snicks up the cliffside. Everyone grabs for the gliders, fluttering half assembled and helpless an hour before launch...
Disadvantages: Crowds, the hot sun, screaming children, cigarette butts in the sand, sunburn...
There are a few worthwhile things in "Aperto 93." One is The World Flag Ant Farm, by the Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi. Yanagi's conceit, a pretty good one, was to make scores of replicas of national flags in colored sand, behind Perspex. These are linked by tubes and populated by a colony of ants, which scurry to and fro between the flags bearing grains of sand in their mandibles. Over time the flags become illegible through migration and mixture; Yanagi's piece has the same concision and elegance as Haacke's in the German pavilion...
...Plympton) has not been all fear and loathing. I'll eternally be grateful to The Crimson, because through this job I've met more people, made more friends, experienced more emotions, done more things, seen more places, written more text and eaten more free Munchkins and turkey sand-wiches than I could have doing any other activity...