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...literal mystery becomes a psychological one, an investigation into the whys and wherefores of suicide and envy. Soon enough, Hoolihan finds herself facing the abyss that lies between Jennifer's seemingly ideal life and her own drab existence. "Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me," the cop says, "trying to reveal what I don't want to see." And this, of course, is Amis' mode as well: to shine a flashlight on our seamy undersides and see what crawls...
Still, those who predicted four years ago that Castro's regime was doomed have been proved wrong. The economy has emerged from the abyss. At the depths of the special period, the country had almost no petroleum, electricity, food, transport or production. Today Havana blooms with chicly renovated hotels, neon signs, crowded restaurants and nightclubs. The U.S. dollar has swallowed the Cuban peso. Farmer's markets and mom-and-pop entrepreneurs fuel a production boom of sorts. Cars outnumber bicycles again in Havana, and many of them are 1990s Nissans, not 1950s Chevys. Foreign investors not only share ownership...
When prominent scientists are prepared to acquiesce in--or indeed encourage--the deliberate creation of deformed and dying quasi-human life, you know we are facing a bioethical abyss. Human beings are ends, not means. There is no grosser corruption of biotechnology than creating a human mutant and disemboweling it at our pleasure for spare parts...
That one precious point, however, was so close to being squandered. After a first period where the two teams marked up two goals a piece, Harvard once again fell into an abyss of mental lapses in the second period which led to three consecutive B.C. goals...
...There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than the movies that preceded it. What gargantuan retread can be next--History of the World Part...