Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maturity as an artist begins with an outpouring of drawings and paintings around 1980, all on the same subject: the garden of a rented house in the south of France, an unremarkable scene of a small rectangular pool surrounded by a low boxwood hedge, rhododendrons and a claustrophobic screen of dank, suburban cypresses...
When the eager fans reached the center, tuxedoed U.S. marshals escorted them to an upstairs room. Playing on a giant screen were videotapes of the Redskins' 1983 Super Bowl victory. Deputy Marshal Louis McKinney, wearing top hat and tails, greeted the guests, then announced: "We have one big surprise for you. You're all under arrest." The stunned revelers were handcuffed, then jailed, the latest victims of a series of stings FIST has used to catch crooks from scofflaws to hardened felons. Yield from the Redskins ruse: 37 fugitives sought for parole and probation violations, and 61 others wanted...
DIED. Anne Baxter, 62, throaty-voiced actress whose stage and screen career, from her 1936 Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard to her current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based...
Home-video producers reply that there is nothing wrong with children wanting their own cassettes of Strawberry Shortcake or Rainbow Brite. "Kids' having their favorite licensed characters is like adults' having their favorite stars on the screen," says C.J. Kettler, vice president of children's programming for Vestron Video. "Rainbow Brite is a pretty positive role model." Indeed, with home video, parents at least have a measure of control over what their children are watching. The question is, once youngsters have all their favorites on cassette, will they ever be lured away from the TV set again...
...always seemed, indeed, that her work, so dependent for its haunting power on the tonalities of her prose, at once intensely specific and mysteriously reticent, was too fine for the narrative demands of the screen. Out of Africa is a memoir and a collection of tales. But it is also an anthropologist's notebook, a naturalist's diary and a mystic's ruminations. And, yes, a duplicitous fiction in which time is compressed and rearranged, incidents conflated. The narrator granted herself a serene distance and freedom from quotidian concerns. How do you get all that into a movie and fulfill...