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...pique against one of their harshest West European critics, the Soviets were careful not to celebrate Chirac's arrival with anything like the warmth that had greeted Thatcher. The next day, Pravda's front page carried a picture of Gorbachev with a Soviet artist, while the story of Chirac's arrival was consigned to the bottom of the page -- without a picture...
...like the Amiens Cathedral. If it were sandblasted to its original surface, the building would be out of keeping with the surrounding medieval structures and would emerge as a distasteful visual anachronism. A close examination of your color illustrations reveals that the Sistine Chapel's uncleaned surfaces have a warmth of spirit that is absent in the cleaned areas. The vitality of the "old" Michelangelo is absent in the bland, dispirited imagery that has emerged...
...characters seem to be caricatures rather than real personalities. General Kangaroo (Hugh Keays-Byrne), for instance, is a one-dimensional fascist, a leader without compassion, love or warmth. He has no traits other than greed and we are left wondering why his devoted cultish followers would ever have taken him seriously...
...that Goldthwait's material is totally subliterate raving. In his latest HBO concert, Share the Warmth, he offered pungent comments on everything from Iranscam to Lucille Ball ("A 75-year-old woman performing slapstick comedy -- is that funny to you?"), along with hapless autobiographical asides. "I lost my job," he whimpers. "No, wait. I didn't really lose my job. I mean, I know where my job is still. It's just when I go there, there's this new guy doing it." Underneath the shrieks and stammers, a shrewd comic mind is percolating...
SINCE THE stop has been moved nothing has changed. People still wait inside the warmth of the Science Center until they see the approaching bus and then run across the street to the Memorial Hall driveway. End result: At peak hours, the 40 people crossing Oxford Street en masse obstruct just as much traffic as ever...