Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAKE THINGS more difficult, Lucas isn't the only one after the fair maiden. Cap (Charlie Sheen--yes, another member of the family), is also interested. The pregnant irony of this triangle, an irony that could have been better developed, is that Cap and Maggie are united in their friendship with Lucas and the sensitivity which they acquire through him. Lucas, in a sense, creates his own romantic downfall...
What caused the radical turnabout? Primarily, mainline religion violated the first commandment of TV: Thou shalt not bore. The shows avoided not only Gospel appeals but personalities, a necessity on an entertainment-oriented medium. The only galvanizing religious figure to emerge in weekly prime time, Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen, was sponsored by the Admiral Corp., not by his church. Another factor: the Federal Communications Commission decided to give equal "public service" credit to paid religion and free-time shows. Stations were eager to sell time and increase profits, and the Evangelicals were ready. Their 40 years in the paid-time...
...Hitchcock Presents has settled for simply remaking old episodes from its earlier incarnation, it seems far fresher and more vital than The Twilight Zone. No supernatural morality plays here; just some deft storytelling and a refreshingly sardonic view of human nature. Hitchcock characters are greedy, vengeful and nasty (Martin Sheen, for instance, as a dissolute, over-the-hill actor who kills a young rival), and good people as well as bad are subject to the capriciousness of fate...
Miyake approaches even the humblest bolt of cloth with the sophistication that comes from long practical experience, as well as from a grounding in the inward splendors of the classic Japanese tea ceremony. Two central concepts of tea culture are sabi and wabi. Sabi conveys the dull sheen of posterity, the finish, mystery and allure acquired by an object that has been well worn. Wabi suggests the use of a humble material for a higher purpose. Both qualities abound in Miyake's best clothes: his coats and dresses cut from one piece of cloth, a man's sweater that looks...
...Empire Burlesque: Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones present and Mick Taylor of the Stones past; Drummer Jim Keltner; and most especially the drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who give the record a funky, rumpled-up, island-inflected, rhythmic drive. With all this professional sheen, Empire Burlesque is still startling, an unexpected flash-forward. Like a sudden cut in a film, this record is disorienting at first -- Where did this come from? What's going on? -- but so well judged and timed that after a moment, it seems the only natural course...