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...great American rhinoceros has become a brilliant tightrope walker. Who imagined that the greatest power the earth has ever known could balance its corpulent, corporate self so exquisitely and walk across the bridge into the 21st century as if toeing a cable over the abyss...
...past six weeks, tensions have steadily mounted between Israelis and Palestinians; as of yesterday, 207 lives had been lost in this latest surge of violence, many of them civilians. The Oslo peace process, so promising until late September, teeters on the edge of an abyss; at any moment, the careful work of the last seven years crashing down...
...great American rhinoceros has become a brilliant tightrope walker. Who imagined that the greatest power Earth has ever known could balance its corpulent corporate self so exquisitely and walk across the bridge into the twenty-first century as if toeing a cable over the abyss...
...music is in no way a soundtrack for the book, but rather a parallel view of the same history. House of Leaves tells of a family whose house is five-sixteenths of an inch longer on the inside than on the outside. The house also contains a dark abyss into which people disappear for days. The eventual breakdown of the family reflects Danielewski's childhood, just as Poe's music does her own. A- -Krisa R. Benskin...
...ABYSS and 21) TITANIC Director James Cameron is the anti-Kathie Lee Gifford. While the siren Gifford's TV commercials beckon vacationers to join her floating fun, Cameron is Neptune with a grudge, punishing anyone dumb enough to board his ships of fools. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, star of The Abyss, also appears this summer in 22) THE PERFECT STORM. She's jinxed, matey...