Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Davidson plays Dil, a pert London hairdresser on the brink of an affair with Fergus (Stephen Rea), an IRA man who held Dil's British lover captive in Belfast. Fergus hasn't expected to fall in love. He surely hasn't expected to find -- as the viewer does, 69 minutes into the 112-minute film -- that Dil is a man. A gay black man, pining for a gay black British soldier, yet eerily enticing to an Irish heterosexual who now has the convulsive feeling he is on the lam from himself...
...instructive hit too. The glut of youth-oriented shows seems to have created a viewer backlash. Matlock and In the Heat of the Night, two old- timers canceled by NBC last year, are back and doing well on new networks. NBC executives have acknowledged that they probably moved too fast to junk aging shows and replace them with youth-oriented sitcoms. It is no accident that CBS, the one network that has stayed aloof from the youthquake, is No. 1 in the ratings, with "mature" shows like Murder, She Wrote, 60 Minutes and Evening Shade...
There is little in Preparing for the Twenty-First Century that will surprise a faithful reader of newspaper op-ed pages or a regular viewer of public- television chat shows. Yet once again Kennedy may resonate perfectly with the national psyche; his concern for the environment, education and the economy mirrors the visionary world view of the incoming Clinton Administration. Not a cheerleader by nature, Kennedy makes scant secret of his skepticism: "In the unlikely event that government and societies do decide to transform themselves, we ought to recognize that our endeavors might have only a marginal effect...
...spilled, and that on the actual day the explosion was sparked by a broken headlamp anyway. The producers were so taken with this reasoning that they forgot the basic question, Is it fair? The essential contract is not with any source or expert, but with the reader or viewer, who is entitled to the facts to judge for himself...
...exhibition which should be of interest not only to the art historian, but also to the artist and those curious about the science of ceramics. Free from the conventions of Western art, the show gives us the rare opportunity to appreciate not how the artist has manipulated the viewer to an idea, but how the artist has manipulated earth to make it into such a beautiful thing...