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...Aquacade's" five-member chorus performs several gently satirical numbers that, unfortunately, are not nearly as witty and creative as the accompanying costumes of giant bananas, pineapples and starfish. As tongue-in-cheek sequences, they're too tame and subdued to make their point, if intended seriously, they're too silly...
...other statistics made clear the high cost the nation has incurred to tame inflation. Total national production of goods and services, adjusted for inflation, dropped an unexpectedly sharp 2.5% in last year's final quarter. For all of 1982, real G.N.P. fell 1.8%, its worst tumble since 1946. U.S. mines and factories in December ran at only 67.3% of capacity, the lowest figure on record since these statistics were first compiled...
...prosperity with a nickel-a-gallon gasoline tax was stalled by a renegade filibuster. Ronald Reagan and his congressional critics were still at swords' points over the MX missile, and no one dared even mention Social Security, a beast that some had foolishly dreamed the special session would tame...
...Tame Those Tigers...
...horror because the basic cliches are never even slightly twisted around or brought to life--only heavy-handedly presented. An attempt to inject humor into a subject like "Create" emerges as a limp, indecisive parody. Only "Creeping Upon You" contains a truly visceral moment of horror among all this tame nonsense, and even that has more to do with the by that time welcome presence of 40,000 live cockroaches than any storytelling skill. Creepshow is disappointingly bland, commercial, and far removed from its pulp roots...