Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mounted with the kind of refinement that leaves room for a witty little coup like showing two pair of knee breeches on busily pedaling half-mannequins. On the top floor, some 18th century costumes move in almost antic procession on mannequins molded like silhouettes in some three-dimensional shadow play. Below, on the 19th century floor, a woman dresses for the opera in a ravishing gown by Charles Frederick Worth; across the gallery, an array of simple cottons and linens arranged as if for a Sunday outing at a park creates an effortless paradigm of everyday elegance...
...sense that a chapter of history is almost over: the Marcos era. Over the two decades since his first democratic election in 1965, the President has run the gamut of transformation, changing from a populist reformer to a modernizing strongman to, in recent years, a fading and often grotesque shadow of his former authoritarian self. In the process, he has profoundly changed his country, at times in the past for the better, but of late decidedly for the worse...
...distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others, it quickly tarnishes. Some villagers balk because the advance team has already pushed on to the next villages, leaving in its wake a "shadow government" that coerces support and suppresses criticism. Others are shocked when the guerrillas destroy businesses belonging to people who have refused to pay N.P.A. "taxes." Most important, many who may initially welcome the "instant justice" guerrillas apply to abusive individuals change their minds as vengeance turns capricious and arbitrary. Salve...
Only time will tell if the Pats will bounce back. Drugs are serious business. And the shadow of racism in this most racist of cities has already begun to raise its ugly head...
...laughs into his wacky episode of George Burns Comedy Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work of the year was not his feature flop Explorers but a spooky segment for The Twilight Zone called The Shadow Man, about a boy who discovers a sinister phantom living under...