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...cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons, more like ray guns than rifles. Their odd shapes, and the robotic look of the soldiers, suggest that Picasso had also been looking at American sci-fi comic strips. It isn't clear who the killers are, and the naked victims don't look at all Asian; every Marxist in France (which in 1951 meant most of the French intelligentsia) assumed that the painting was a denunciation of some unspecified American war crime...
Ginger and Fred's dancing may seem too orchestrated, too perfect to many younger people who would rather watch shoot-em-up dramas or sci-fi flicks. True, there is a lot to be said for dramas and science fiction. But our generation is missing out on plain, old-fashioned beauty by watching only modern movies at the expense...
...addressing the contention that abductees have been contaminated by popular culture and sci-fi, Faust says, "That's one of the things that freaked me out. I wasn't into UFOs and I'm still not into UFOs. There was no reason for me to have these experiences and I've gained nothing from them...
...basementthat transports him to different parallel universes every week. Elsewhere, Showtime has just launched a revival of the 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits (Sundays, 10 p.m. est), which will prey on fears of everything from alien organisms to virtual reality. These shows are joining a sizable armada of sci-fi programming already on the air, ranging from nbc's SeaQuest DSV and Earth 2 to the syndicated Star Trek sequels, as well as the fare offered on cable's Sci-Fi Channel, now seen in over 18 million homes...
Despite their otherworldly obsessions, the new sci-fi shows are hardly radical in terms of storytelling. They dabble in shadowy bureaucracies. They feature heroes and heroines maniacally driven to resolve the unanswerable. And the shows often conclude in standard good-vs.-evil showdowns. In the first episode of Sliders, the young physicist and his friends find themselves in a communist California, where they join an underground movement to oust the Soviets, who in this world have won the cold war. Sliders, filled with dialogue like "The guy is Three Mile Island--it's going to take him years to cool...