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...their paper-thin texture. In an attempt at the That's Entertainment of bad films, five comic actors-Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Cheech and Chong-introduce segments about gorillas, musicals, reefers, mixed-up teens and the mesmerizing oeuvre of the Poverty Row Stroheim, Edward D. Wood...
Bourgeois's most stringent and satisfactory works tend to be those based on either "primitive" totems or natural forms: coral polyps, breasts, clusters of buds and palps. The totemic pieces cluster sociably together in crowds, tall and etiolated, often made up of worn chips and fragments of wood threaded on a central armature, like shashlik on a skewer, and then painted. Bourgeois likes repetition with small variations: some of her larger pieces, like Number Seventy-Two (The No March), 1972, are composed of hundreds of marble cylinders, their tops lopped and slanted at different angles, clustered on a platform...
...Andropov has a 5½-room apartment in Moscow that is comfortable but not elegant. When Sakharov was invited to visit by Andropov's son in the mid-1960s, the apartment's outstanding features were a stereo system, a sofa and a cabinet of highly polished wood, gifts to Andropov from the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito...
Addressing about 130 spectators in a Kennedy School Classroom, Wood ruff emphasized television's enlarged role in the national media. "We're in a different era for television now, it has become predominant national media coverage". she said, adding that "the Whole White House press schedule is geared to television...
...Wood ruff said," the average length of a story on the Today show is only one minute and ten seconds, and on the evening news shows it's only one and a half minute. "adding,' It's very difficult boil a story down to that amount of time. What we really need is more reporting on back ground issues show the stories, like how policies are carried...