Word: blastingly
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...father. Most of it, though, surely arises from the desire to encourage an alternative cinema of sobriety and humanity in the midst of summer?s heavily mechanized silly season." The key moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film comes when Ulee could pick up a stray gun and blast a pair of bad guys away. He doesn?t, and you just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win 'Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some...
...showed no emotion, and as he was led away, he used two fingers to wave to the jury. He turned to his parents and his sister to mouth the words, "It's O.K." "Is he on some kind of medication?" asks Marsha Kight, who lost a daughter in the blast and believes execution is not punishment enough for McVeigh. "Death is easy," she says. "He'll be gone in two minutes...
Could fallout be good for you? Most scientists won't go that far. One possible explanation for the unexpected longevity of some atom-blast victims is that whatever enabled them to survive the blast in the first place--a natural resistance to disease, perhaps--continues to protect them. It is more likely, says the National Academy of Sciences' Evan Douple, a leading expert in the field, that radiation is not quite as harmful as was supposed. "Radiation in general is a very ineffective carcinogen," he says. Below certain very low levels, it may cause no harm...
Those who lost something precious in the blast--their loved one, their limb, their ability to see or hear, their capacity for joy--have earned this point of view. But what about the rest of us? While the horrific scale of McVeigh's crime seems to demand the ultimate penalty, there's something unsettling about the way so much of America is gearing up for a good old-fashioned grudge killing. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 78% of respondents--82% of men and 75% of women--wanted McVeigh to receive the death penalty. (About the same percentage favored...
...federal judiciary have steadily narrowed the methods of appeal. In 1984 and 1986, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that defendants were not entitled to special appeals reviews and that striking jurors from capital cases because they oppose the death penalty was constitutional. In McVeigh's trial, blast survivors who oppose capital punishment were barred by the prosecution from taking the stand during the penalty phase. Congress got into the act with the 1988 and 1994 crime bills, which included the first modern federal death-penalty statute and extended the death penalty to more than 50 different offenses...