Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the taut direction of Stephen Hollis, the cast is uneven and does not provide the claustrophobic mood that the play clearly demands. Tom Waites is fine as Oliver, and Pauline Flanagan's Eve is a model of laced-up propriety masking inner compassion. Christina Pickles conveys the teasing coquettishness and parched loins of Molly well, but never makes her love for the boy convincing. For a man who is obsessed by the approach of death and his wife's infidelity, Michael Higgins' Teddy is a shade too passive...
...other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies. This model offers nothing new. It seems headed for the summer drive-in trade, where it can play to an appropriate audience - the blank, staring faces of hundreds of other cars...
Night Jogging. Muggers tremble behind locked doors now, to avoid being trampled by housewives in striped training suits. Sports stores are unable to keep $36.95 imported running shoes in stock. (Adidas sells a white and orange model that glows in the dark, for night jogging.) Day hikers need permits to enter certain overused areas of New Hampshire's White Mountains. A slender, bemused fellow named George Butler, who produced the body-building film Pumping Iron, goes about saying, "The next generation of American men will be unrecognizable," and at the rate at which weight-lifting rigs are selling...
...effects were computer inspired or controlled. For shots using miniatures, Lucas' crew cannibalized more than 300 model kits and collected parts from old tanks and World War II planes. When recasting their finds in plastic, they roughed them up as well. The result is a refreshingly lived-in, even beat-up, space world...
...lone area where Galbraith feels sure he is on sound ideological ground is when he asserts the universality of bourgeois, materialist values, resulting in the convergence of capitalist, communist, and developing nations towards one social and economic model. From the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the Soviet Union to socialized health care in Britain, in the growth of the massive production plant in capitalist and socialist nations, and in the uniformity of architectural styles in Moscow and New York, Galbraith finds convergence of culture. He takes heart in the development, presumably because of its implications for peaceful co-existence between...