Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...echoes of the past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...
Jack is a classic newsroom journalist -- a reporter turned editor, hard driving and known to explode occasionally. He also has faith in America's ability to cure its ills. "Despite the lack of vision from Washington, this country has enormous strengths that can get us through a difficult time," he says. "The baby boomers, who grew up with the civil rights and women's movements, Vietnam and the sexual revolution, will have control of the country. How they cope will be the biggest story around...
Some art seeks the edge, tries to break the boundary. And other art struggles to refine, integrate, bring the past forward into the present. Who, in the end, can say with assurance which is the more valuable? This is the main question posed by "On Classic Ground," this summer's main show at the Tate Gallery in London...
...work is fast, funny and damnably clever. Set behind the Iron Curtain in 1968, Increased Difficulty of Concentration, plays game with perception, chronology and language, and is classic theater of the absurd. The simple repitition of dialogues, even entire scenes, lends Havel's glimpse behind the curtain an acuity. The work is frequently and charmingly inscrutable; there are several inexplicable and subtle wardrobe changes between scenes...
What accounts for the blossoming? Most industry observers credit the baby- boom audience, who grew up watching classic cartoons and see them as a reminder of their youth -- and something to share with their kids. From the industry standpoint, the high cost of animation (a fully animated feature ranges from $12 million to $25 million) seems less prohibitive in an era of soaring star salaries and $50 million-plus budgets. The appeal of animation has also been enhanced by home video: such cartoon features as Bambi and The Little Mermaid have been among the hottest sellers at the cassette counter...