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...where the stiff breeze is appreciated for whisking away hungry, aggressive mosquitoes and as natural air conditioning. Oh, and there's a tornado watch-so sleep near your vehicle. "We're on our own. Take care of it," Reall says, adding, "keep your boots on. Stay dressed. I ain't got a clue what's out there...
...there's one thing the twin tragedies of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia taught NASA, it's that when a spaceship ain't broke, the last thing you want to try to do is fix it. The Apollo moonships and the Saturn rockets that launched them had an extraordinary safety and success record, relying on the old concept of throwaway parts: When one stage of a rocket is spent, dump it in the ocean; when you're through with your lunar lander, leave most of it on the moon...
...work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More striking is Smith's ability to make her motley cast...
...about the number of refugees in the Convention Center and the whereabouts of two trucks and trailers loaded with water and food. Furious, he interrupted and glared at the camera transmitting his image back to Mississippi. "I know y'all are trying as hard as you can, but it ain't cuttin' it," the Commander in Chief barked. "I wanna know why. We gotta do better...
...There ain't nothin' to it but to do it." Armed with this bromide, an easy wit and $100,000, Robert Townsend made a movie. Suddenly the actor (A Soldier's Story) was his own producer, director and coauthor. The film might be his own life too. Bobby Taylor (Townsend) works days at a hot-dog stand while enduring auditions with casting directors who want every black actor to be Eddie Murphy or Super Dude or "just a little more . . . black?" He secures the title role in a blaxploitation epic called Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge, only to chuck...