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Meanwhile, Wiseman has remained austerely, some would say maddeningly, consistent. In a string of further documentaries for public TV, his cameras have observed institutions from a New York City welfare office to Dallas' Neiman-Marcus department store, all with the same unvarnished, fly-on-the-wall style. Even his titles -- Hospital, Welfare, Racetrack, The Store -- are stripped to the bluntly descriptive essentials. Behind Wiseman's minimalist method, however, is a subtle and perceptive artist. His enduring subject: the way people cope with the stress, dislocation and institutional indifference of American life...
DEAF AND BLIND (PBS, June 17, 18, 24, 25, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, America's leading fly-on-the-wall filmmaker, observes an Alabama school for handicapped children in four separate documentaries...
...object on view. It fills most of the gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some 28,000 magazines -- surplus copies of House Beautiful, Esquire, Town & Country and the like -- spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor, a 300-h.p. Johnson V-8, which looks big enough to drive the Queen Mary. The work is not for sale, and will be dismantled...
Lambasting Washington, Wall Street and special-interest groups everywhere, Iacocca, 63, complains that too many Americans are unwilling to make the compromises necessary to attack such problems as federal deficits, trade imbalances, ineffective high schools and shoddy workmanship. Unlike many industrialists, he calls for a more activist Federal Government. "The next President must find a way to ease the polarization, because we don't seem much like a 'United' States anymore -- just a bunch of fifty states, each doing its own thing...
...blackboard trying to figure out fractions. "Which one is the numerator?" the teacher asked. He pointed to it and then, on cue, to the dividend, the quotient, the remainder, the divisor, the denominator. His fellow cast members gazed intently at the blackboard chalked full of figures. On the wall was a poster from another Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf...