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Walker believes that "the biggest challenge we face is still to make top-quality films," and film critics tend to agree. Though slick and successful, the recent crop of Disney animated and live-action films (Gus, Treasure of Matecumbe, Robin Hood) shows little of Walt's skill at tugging an audience over pop-emotional peaks and valleys. Nor do the forthcoming The Rescuers and Pete's Dragon. Indeed, not since Mary Poppins in 1964 has Disney produced a genuinely smashing, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
...doesn't. But it does. [MORE]'s subject is amorphous--all the more reason to be disappointed when they compartmentalize it, line it off in little boxes that defy comprehensiveness. [MORE]'s problem will always be that it is trudging along in the ranks of the Slick. Plumed cavaliers either joust each other or set up straw men, hollow men, graven images of themselves, to knock down. The magazine is covering a game of daggers sliding out of ruffled tuxedo sleeves, or a swift innuendo to the kidneys, or, at best, a Polaroid snapshot of stasis. They're all interesting...
...cutesie, all-American blonde you project, glossy and slick, is vacuous to this American woman...
Like its counterparts in other big cities, WBCN at 104.1 FM has undergone a steady degeneration. It started out in the early '60s as an underground outfit, willing to take chances and experiment with new material. Now it--like you, me, and everything else--has been coopted. WBCN is slick, commercial, and bland. Listening to it, you might think it was still 1969--Jimi and Janis live, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are together, the Beatles are the hottest thing going. Occasionally there are high spots--Andrew Kopkind's commentary and the Liberation News Service among them--but generally...
...next couple of months, keeping posted on what's happening in the area will be easy. The Real Paper and The Phoenix have followed a course of development similar to that of radio station WBCN--starting out as alternative, radical papers, they have become increasingly non-political, showy and slick. Nevertheless, they are pretty good at what they do--their listings of special events, services, and the arts are very comprehensive. The Boston Globe is strongest in its local and sports reporting, but on the national level its coverage is at best erratic, with the exception of two fine journalists...