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...Basque terrorist movement ETA killed two people outside a suburban rail station near San Sebastian, French police arrested Xabier Garcia Gaztelu, alias Txapote, who is believed to be eta's top military commander. He has allegedly participated in at least 12 murders, including that of Popular Party councillor Miguel Angel Blanco and Socialist lawyer Fernando Mugica. Txapote was seized in the French town of Anglet, close to the Spanish border, and will face trial in France before extradition to Spain. The arrest is a major blow to eta, whose most senior leader was apprehended last year. The group's campaign...
...Jacky applies a thick layer of foundation makeup to her face, and then dabs on retouching cream and then a coating of powder, she talks about how tonight she has to find a customer; she needs to make a thousand baht. She'll work the dance floor at Angel's and, if she can't pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort for Bangkok's bar girls. If she can find a customer and save some money, she can visit her children out in Nakon Nayok...
...There are still moments when even hard-core addicts like Jacky can recapture the shiny, bright exuberance of the first few times she tried speed. Even tonight, as she dances with a potential Belgian client at Angel's, and it looks like the customer is about to take her back to his hotel room, and she's thinking that she'll soon have enough money to visit her children, it doesn't seem so bad. It seems life is almost manageable. A few more customers and who knows, maybe one will really fall for her and pay to move...
...executed in a faux-naif (or maybe really naive) style, are seen throughout the movie. Fireworks also flirts with humanism. He's Nishi, a cop, and his wife has terminal cancer. (Women in Kitano films, when they appear at all, exist mainly as objects or metaphors: the hooker, the angel, the noble victim.) Nishi becomes a caregiver with a vengeance: he steals money to support his wife...
Some UHS personnel screamed from the roof, while others--wearing white lab coats--pressed their faces against the window and held a sign reading, "Drew Our Angel...