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...house where six Florida youths search for sexual initiation, find humiliation, and then, by revenging themselves on its proprietor, achieve a sort of do-it-yourself rite de passage. The rest of the time they spend spying on the girls' locker room and recalling the sex jokes of yesteryear. Bob Clark (Murder by Decree) is the writer-director here. If he knew how to stage comedy, or find a scene's point, Porky's might have achieved something more than the lackadaisical good nature Clark shyly offers...
...dollar and gold on Aug. 15, 1971, when he said that the U.S. would no longer exchange American gold for dollars held by foreign central banks. But since that time, inflation and interest rates have reached unimaginable levels, stirring longings for a return to the golden days of yesteryear, when the dollar's value was determined not by man-made policies in Washington but by how much gold it could...
This year the results are often tonic, enjoyable and full of hope. Some shoots of real vitality have been emerging from the conceptual rubble of late modernism. Although there is nostalgia for the arid pieties of yesteryear-Peter Lodato's two blank 11-ft.-high rectangles at the Whitney, for instance-the general tone is unsystematic, quirkish and opposed to movements. So much so, indeed, that curatorial bias gets in the way. No one is likely to miss minimal art, but the total exclusion of color-field painting reflects as much bigotry as its absolute dominance did ten years...
...beloved onomatopoetics of yesteryear, redolent of childhood's long, rainy Sunday afternoons, cannot help recalling that the comics were the popular art that most radically stylized experience. Sometimes artfully, more often not, they reduced it to its basic components of violence, disgust, fear, heroics and sometimes laughter. From their beginnings, the comics and the movies have lived together symbolically; there is scarcely a major comic-page figure who has not been reincarnated on the screen, or a comic strip that has not been influenced by the way movie directors frame and compose scenes. Yet the transitions from one medium...
...most part, all the toys of yesteryear are being replaced by electronic games. Two years ago, Simon was a big hit. Now, its Pocket Simon that's driving them wild, or would be, if the Jordan Marsh help remembered to replace the batteries on the demonstrator model...