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...with an ironic twist that can pass for 1980s modernism. We're so hip, we know that every movie thrill is a fraud. We know the technique behind each matte shot, each jive emotion. Perhaps the audience at some B-minus sci-fi thriller in the 1950s solemnly attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake...
...many of us moaned out loud when I.B. Cohenof Nat Sci III assaulted us with the worst everexam questions? "What was the final temperature ofthe beaker of water into which fell the steel ballthat had bounced off the nail after it rolled andfell off the table which was X inches off thefloor...
...1960s it was back to the future. Indeed, the future was now, and adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today...
...Faulkner confirmed for What is to be Done? readers that the Gurus' new record and its title song are both named in honor of Mars Needs Women, the spectacularly awful sci-fi exploitation flick whose title needs no elaboration...
Although Shintaido has had an active following on campus since the spring semester of 1984, few members of the Harvard community would probably define it as anything other than a sci-fi film or a sushi dish...