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Smaller firms that lack large research departments often use desktop computers to turn a stack of complex statistics into easy-to-read charts. Rosen Research, a Manhattan firm that studies the electronics industry, recently used its Apple II personal computer for such a job. The cost: 40? for a graphic illustration, compared with $80 each when prepared by a professional designer...
...decades, Jean-Luc Godard has been cinema's master of collage. His films assemble scraps of dust-jacket wisdom, revolutionary rhetoric, sexual aggression, the music and the language of the streets, images from books, TV, magazines and billboards, forming a mosaic that melds the graphic wit of a Braque guitar with the anarchic intensity of a kidnaper's ransom note. In Every Man for Himself, the first Godard film to be distributed in the U.S. since 1972, he has tried to make an accessible movie while still speaking in his steely, ironic voice. But Godard will...
...five-night, twelve-hour, $25 million production of James Clavell's bestselling novel Shōgun, set in 17th century Japan and starring Richard Chamberlain and Yoko Shimada. Despite long doses of uncaptioned Japanese dialogue, Shōgun's mix of arch politics, discreet sex and graphic beheadings started big on Monday night with 70 million watching, and was still going strong at week's end as newspapers alertly provided daily plot summaries. The total audience: some 125 million. NBC President Fred Silverman may just turn his network around after all, and Shogōn may rank...
...does it act as a catharsis, purging the viewer of his/her violent instincts? Innumerable studies in the last 50 years say yes, no, maybe to all three questions. It obviously depends on the state of the individual viewer (frustrated, placid, volatile), the style of violence (restrained, perfunctory, Iyrical, lingering, graphic), the filmmaker's attitude toward the victims and violators (a likable killer, empathetic victim, etc.), and other assorted immeasurables...
...does it act as a catharsis, purging the viewer of his/her violent instincts? Innumerable studies in the last 50 years say yes, no, maybe to all three questions. It obviously depends on the state of the individual viewer (frustrated, placid, volatile), the style of violence (restrained, perfunctory, Iyrical, lingering, graphic), the filmmaker's attitude toward the victims and violators (a likable killer, empathetic victim, etc.), and other assorted immeasurables...