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...high static over just one tape signals the intense level of competition that is coming soon to the video store near you -- or has already arrived. The number of outlets that rent or sell videocassettes has surged from as few as 10,000 in 1981 to more than 35,000 today. Everyone from car-wash operators to grocers to American Express has got into the act of dispensing tapes. The array of new outlets is bringing lower prices, wider selection and greater convenience for consumers, but it is also beginning to squeeze out many of the mom-and-pop operators...
...Ingmar Bergman. The American painter and the Swedish filmmaker are both stern visionaries whose art is based not on effusion but on reduction -- experience purified, like the flayed skin of a penitent. Both document man's spiritual solitude. Both listen for the eloquence in things left unsaid, the static electricity in gestures repressed. In their work you notice the flint first; you have to get closer to feel the fire...
Sean Penn is tops. Madonna's bad boy was a wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film...
...MORE dangerous aspect of the Meese doctrine is the implicit idea that the Constitution is a static document. To the attorney general, the founders' specific views and opinions--rather than the broad conceptions of government and rights which they put down in the Constitution--are binding upon American society throughout the generations. If a right did not exist in the 18th century, it is unwarranted judicial activism for a court to decide that it exists now. Hence Meese denounces the application of the Bill of Rights to the states and rejects the Miranda decision...
Opening day became weeks, months, years. My mind flitted through time, measured by seasons, defined by baseball cards and doubleheaders and static-filled radio broadcasts on WTIC-Hartford...