Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Sidney Lumet and his cinematographer, Andrzej Bartkowiak, shoot Los Angeles in what they seem to think is a new light but is really imitation Magritte, the kind of thing you can pick up in art galleries where the EVERYTHING MUST GO signs are permanently posted...
...KNIGHT. Chaucer's "verray parfit gentil" hero could be a killer in a metal dinner jacket, slaying unbelievers when it pleased him. Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage...
...serenity and acceptance; Murphy can't get a rise out of them. And it turns out that the evil he is fighting comes from the supernatural agents sent up from Hades to kidnap the child. Hard to trade quips with a bunch of special effects that mostly seem like outtakes from Raiders of the Lost Ark and indeed come from the same shop, George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic...
...fair number of S.M.U.'s 9,019 students seem fed up and worried too. Said Freshman Page Howard, addressing an unprecedented university-wide meeting called last week to debate the athletics issue: "I didn't come here because I wanted the football team to win. I wanted to learn. Now I'm scared when I graduate that people are going to laugh at my degree...
Like their star, Newhart's shows seem to revel in obscurity. Though it enjoyed six successful seasons on CBS in the 1970s, The Bob Newhart Show never escaped the shadow of its longtime lead-in on Saturday nights, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. His current series, Newhart, which debuted on CBS in 1982, has ranked consistently in the Nielsen Top 20 for the past three seasons. Yet tucked away on Monday nights following the higher-profile Kate & Allie, it has been the most unsung good show...