Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...references. His main subject is the human face, close up and cropped by the frame, a pearly or tanned mask of flat paint with schematic shading, great swacking eyelashes and lipstick-colored lips: it is the face of advertising, the size of an image on a '50s highway billboard shifted into the context of domesticity. Much of the time the face belongs to his wife Ada, whose liquid brown, slightly melancholy eyes and handsomely curved nose recur in image after image, making her one of the most pervasive "presences" in American art since Marilyn Monroe. Ada makes an early appearance...
...much of Kirkpatrick's distinction holds true. The capital, where a large plurality of Chileans live, is a lovely city of tree-lined streets, public gardens, monuments in grassy squares, a speedy, modern 10-cent metro that rivals the one in Paris, and stylish shops with bright displays and billboard ads. A far cry from the drab exterior of your average Eastern-bloc country...
...music. Now millions of their fans are hopping to the same cop pop. An album of songs culled from the program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month. Last week the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart, propelled by two Top Ten singles, the instrumental Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer and You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey. While movie sound tracks like last summer's Beverly Hills Cop have become a proven music-industry formula, Miami Vice is the first...
...with Arthur Baker. "Everybody likes to dance." If everybody can hold still long enough and listen to some lyrics, however, he will get an earful. Sun City is aimed right at the top of the charts, but its sentiments are not the sort of material usually found in Billboard...
...Passion, Ken Russell's flamboyantly seedy sex drama, was a flop at the box office last October, but has earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, has made $3 million in home video, twice as much as it earned in two abortive theatrical releases...