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...characters, the writer and an even more unsuccessful photographer (Charles Cioffi). They need each other's respect. Paradoxically, they also need each other's scorn because they are so disappointed that cynicism is the only thing left to trust. They squabble over money and women, but the big blowup is over a moral failing shared with almost every fictive writer: he has "stolen" his own % life, and that of his unknowing and unwilling friend, to transmute into art. Pacino radiates the desperation of a man whose last possession, his faith in his talent, is also his most fragile...
This is not the first time government negligence has caused a blowup in Guadalajara's sewer. A similar leak of chemicals in 1983 sent trees and cars flying in a 10-block area and injured 48 people. There have been other explosions in the country since 1978, including a series of gas explosions on the outskirts of Mexico City in 1984 that killed at least 400 people. Fearing a repeat of the Guadalajara episode, last week officials evacuated sections of Mexico City and Saltillo after finding gas leaks there. The angry public mood in Mexico may give President Carlos Salinas...
...This Australian drama has faults: a short story's facile symmetry and (ugh!) a wacky car chase. But it gets at the mysteries of isolation and obsession. Like another, better movie about a photographer, a park and betrayal, Proof is a testament to what pictures cannot reveal. This is Blowup, wallet-size...
...weeknights as well, the Governor, Elvis-like, is sighted delivering well- crafted speeches in carefully targeted, delegate-rich states like Florida and Texas, and of course throughout the Rust Belt and in California. Cuomo's modified schedule reduces his exposure, thus limiting the chance for a blowup, which is always possible since the testy and easily tried Governor greets most mornings itching for a fight -- and usually gets...
...blowup of 1991 rained volcanic ash on the Philippines and triggered massive mudslides. It also lofted 15 million to 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide high into the atmosphere, creating droplets of sulfuric acid that will reflect some of the sun's heat back into space. That could hold off global warming for a few years, but when the volcanic gas dissipates, The earth could make up for lost time and heat up uncomfortably fast...