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...around with in updating the pop legend. Whether in derision or in a desperate desire to get laughs, the picture seemed to be running around with its tongue stuck out all the time. Now it is back where it belongs, tucked firmly in cheek. The result is a stylish, well-paced film with a good variety of moods and moves. Taking it easy on itself, Superman II becomes very easy to take...
...cemetery. David Hemmings (who also directed) plays a Nazi who turns Bowie's corpse into Horst Wessel. The stars keep straight faces and hold the viewer's eye through every narrative absurdity, and the film is handsomer, weirder, certainly funnier than Hardly Working. It would be stylish high-camp fun-if only the Nazis hadn't existed...
...Premier Ballets PBS produces from Houston, Texas, or how many times some news team makes you an unwilling eyewitness to a disaster, watching television is still deeply rooted in guilt. We make great gestures toward making the medium into some sort of genuine art, or at least some genuinely stylish entertainment--but that's about as far as it goes. It's just not a form to arouse that sort of passion. If one employs Salvador Dali's Paranoid Critical Method, one starts suspecting that television's visceral meretriciousness is what we actually adore. In a medium populated by yahoos...
...find much to ponder in the World Championships. Elaine Zayak, the 15-year-old American buzz saw who hurtles into triple jumps with wild abandon, served notice that she will soon be a major force in figure skating (see box), finishing second in the women's competition. A stylish Swiss, Denise Biellmann, 18, showed a few complicated moves of her own and took the gold. And once more, the Soviets proved that at least one factory is meeting its production quota quite successfully: Irina Vorobieva and Igor Lisovski won the gold medal for pairs, joining a line of Russian...
...corateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy way and openly bird-brained. Beside Robert Kushner's Same Outfit, 1979, Dufy might look like Poussin...