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...Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some for himself. The whole place suits the style of the man who, on once being asked what MCI stood for, said, "Money coming...
...launching himself off roofs and cliffs in an attempt to fly. And we are talking about a madness that is innocent, joyous and, finally, perhaps unconquerable and exemplary. Especially as it is presented by Matthew Modine in a brave performance--just over the top but under control--with Nicolas Cage playing sane and sensible counterpoint as Al. In movies ! like Midnight Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty of the world that oppresses it. Not so in Birdy. Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best...
Americans are going into 1985 a little older, maybe a little wiser and, in most cases, a little richer. From an economic standpoint, 1984 was a year to cheer. Unemployment dipped, interest rates finally slipped, and inflation stayed cowering in its cage. Many businesses raked in record profits. Most important, Americans relished an estimated 5.3% rise in real disposable income, which is the amount of money people have left after taxes, adjusted for inflation. That fueled a feeling of prosperity and helped propel President Reagan in his re-election romp...
...Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon (1962), a simple carpenter builds an awe-inspiring bird cage for the son of the wealthiest man in the village. When the father balks at paying, Balthazar gives it to the boy as a present. When the poor donate to the rich, the social order begins to tremble. The powerful man feels humiliated, and the carpenter gets drunk, confused and boisterous: "We have to make a lot of things to sell to the rich before they die. All of them are sick, and they're going to die. They're so screwed...
...admire the world Herbert and Lynch have created even as one feels like an illegal alien visiting it. At the very least, Dune provides a bizarre bestiary of characters. One such, the Navigator, is a giant walrus-like creature that rules the universe while floating inside a liquid cage. The Harkonnens are the comic villains of the piece. These red-haired nasties with a taste for drinking human blood and baroquely torturing farm animals are led by the pustulous, airborne Baron Vladimir (Kenneth McMillan) and his aide-de-camp Feyd (the rock star Sting), in gold-leaf bathing suit resplendent...