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...dancers and performers artfully tripped over most of the set. Of course, there were the contemporary references of great import. You know the sort--men are shits, women are great, long live the individual. And then in the orgiastic confusion of the ending, Medea ascended in a spaceship, following a compelling rendition of children screaming as they died. Theater is wonderful...
...forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless, and the script neglects to develop the kind of human relationships any movie needs...
...Loveswept" covers show a willingness to progress. Terry Lawrence's Ever Since Adam (#517) takes place on a spaceship. The man sports a cool state-of-the-art watch; the woman has a short, stylish haircut and is wearing only a bath towel. Here is a cover which is not afraid to face the future. On the back of the book, we read that "Adam Strade made [the heroine] tingle like a rocket seconds before ignition...
...spectacle on Capitol Hill: the Senators vs. the dodger. Truth to tell, the AL snoozathon didn't need the Clarence Thomas hearings to upstage it; a church social could have done the job. Here, after all, were two teams from above the timber line playing in domed stadiums of spaceship sterility on synthetic carpets that made the games look like Brobdingnagian billiards. Only one contest was close all the way. Only one rooting interest tickled fans' fancies: seeing the Twins earn their spot in baseball's unlikeliest finale...
...SPACESHIP EARTH (Worldlink). Tales of deforestation and ozone depletion set to the music of Sting, the B-52s and Ziggy Marley. This superb TV primer on the threats to planet Earth, now available on home video, is simple enough for children to understand and compelling enough to make their parents pay attention as well...