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...Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor...
Perhaps these movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...
...regular intervals from 1964 to as recently as 1976. The Democrats are still the majority party, a party open to bewilderingly diverse groups who somehow pull themselves together for one more election, and then another and another. Said Vice President Mondale last week: "This Democratic Convention is a mirror of all America ?all of it, black and white, Asian and Hispanic, native and immigrant, male and female, young and old, urban and rural, rich and poor...
...decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year-old wife. One of the Bellefleurs has a habit of leaving her window open so that her lover, a vampire, can fly in. Dwarfs bowl in the valleys, rivers change course, mountains shrink, and a man walks through a mirror so that, like Orpheus, he can enter the netherworld and find his own version of Eurydice...
After greeting a Democratic President in the bathroom mirror every one of 1,299 mornings and sleeping in the White House at least 700 nights, Carter has indeed brought the nation a new kind of leadership. It is at least one promise that he kept among the 600 that he made during his remarkable march to the Oval Office...