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Finger on the button, eye glued to the viewfinder, he crouches there, trying to imitate a fireplug's unobtrusiveness while putting a frame around inchoate reality. But much as one admires the discipline of the cinema verite cameraman, sooner or later there comes a time when one wants to scream at him, "Stop being a camera! Start being a human being!" There are many of these moments in Streetwise, a film by Director-Cameraman Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark and Cheryl McCall, about adolescents adrift on the streets of Seattle. The first, surely, is when Erin, one of the principal...
Dalton's Hamlet misses that tragedy in its lust for innovation. Enter Claudius and court, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" echoes inside Leverett Old Library. Let Hamlet speak--whether of lust, love, murder, revenge, proto-angst, what have you--and make him wear a "Relax" button. Enter stage left characters with conspicuously placed Lee jeans patches. Somewhere under the seductive tones of "Relax" I could hear the equally seductive call, all the more insidious for its subtletly, "Innovate...
...through his new spelling program one day, and lost the whole paper. Thorpe's roommate finished writing a paper one day, got up, stretched and kicked the power out, turning the computer off and losing his paper And the stories of 20-page papers lost though pushing one wrong button...
Concerned that their Neolithic treasures would quickly disintegrate if exposed to humidity and sunlight, museum officials placed them in a darkened room, under glass and resting on a bed of blue and white silica gel that absorbs moisture. To view the objects, visitors press a button, which turns on display lights (filtered to block any destructive ultraviolet light) for only 90 seconds...
...specialists try to create a complete image--from corporate hairstyle to speech--for the ambitious man or woman who is still a few tantalizing rungs from the top. Self-styled "wardrobe engineers" advise men to discard cheap ties and reject anything in polyester. Women executives are cautioned to button up at the collar and resist the current custom of walking into the office in running shoes...