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...industry's insistence that it's a wholesome entertainment business sometimes gets it in trouble with the public. When the Hilton Flamingo Casino participated in a job fair in March at a Kansas City, Mo., grade school, the sight of children wearing casino T shirts and singing the riverboat's theme song received critical coverage in a local newspaper. Then there was the woman who tried to have her dead husband's name removed from the mailing lists of the Station Casino, which Sharon Willman is having trouble with. She was told that the only way to have his name...
...movie, however, such considerations are merely hurdles on the way to the sight of bugs eating people. Some half-hearted references are made to the setup of this quasi-socialist republic, and there are several clips of propaganda-type films, which seem to be poking fun at Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of publicity movies for World War II. More than anything, the film seems confused at these points, as if going through the motions of something it would rather not bother with. The political concerns are therefore glossed over with alacrity and a minimum of depth...
Until you published your lengthy report, Hillary Clinton was doing a fairly good job staying out of sight, just what the public wants her to do. In the future, please assist her in achieving this goal. H. WAYNE CARVER II Avon, Conn...
...with so much of their art, we might be tempted to judge the work as a contemptuous critique of the banal. Yet the artists clearly delight in their subjects, and their fascination proves infectious. We cringe at the sight of the dentist's drill and laugh at one clumsy dancer in the disco, knowing all too well that our moves are never as great we think they are. The generosity and empathy of Fischli and Weiss' vision proves that they're never laughing at us, but always laughing with us. And unlike so many exhibitions of critical '80s art, there...
Once the motorcade passes out of sight, the crowd immediately loses most of its enthusiasm, as if its only real purpose in gathering was to place a particular image in Jiang's personal visual narrative. And yet I can't help but realize that if the Chinese President was sitting on the wrong side of the car as it turned past the crowd, there's a good chance he missed the whole thing...