Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...wonders about the good accomplished by these manuals for so-called do-it-yourself lawyers [Dec. 8]. Instead of saving legal costs, they often end by generating far more attorneys' fees-because real lawyers have to straighten out relatively routine matters that have become mired by well-intentioned laymen...
...conspicuous change has occurred in the press. While still censored, newspapers and magazines now print real news along with government propaganda. Says Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka (circ. 285,000): "During the past few months, we have published all the articles that were confiscated by the censors over the past two years-well, maybe not all, maybe we've got two or three left." Polityka, which is edited by a member of the Central Committee, recently ran an unexpurgated interview with Walesa and other prominent members of Solidarity. Poles are a bit overwhelmed by this...
...real trouble is Altman's direction, at once spacy and junked up. He caused an entire small town, Sweethaven, to be constructed on Malta, and it is as jumbled as Segar's Thimble Theatre was clean-lined. Worse, the sound track is constantly amutter with asides, off-screen voices, half-overheards-Altman trademarks at odds with the spare, sharp verbal play that was one of the delights in the comic...
...learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...
...Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine...