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Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It's the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. We want to feel for them. But not too much. We want our doomsdays...
Boris Yeltsin's crisis of health is setting off an equally severe crisis of confidence among his closest advisers. After a nasty brush with pneumonia and a reported relapse into depression, the chances that the 66-year-old President can serve out the remainder of his four-year term have begun to look increasingly uncertain. And the more doubtful his survival becomes, the more furiously members of Yeltsin's inner circle feel they must scramble for a solution to keep themselves in power. The biggest problem they face is that if Yeltsin were to pass from the scene tomorrow...
Finally, last year, his appeal to a higher court turned down, Taborsky was sent to a minimum-security facility, where for two months he was kept in shackles, clearing brush. Now scheduled for release in April, he has refused an offer of a pardon by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. Accepting the offer, he says, would mean admitting he is guilty, and he is confident that he will eventually be vindicated. Despite his travails, he says, "I'm seeking justice and seeking the truth. I believe in the system of justice in the United States...
...Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale...
...return of roadsters and the introduction of newly designed models [BUSINESS, Dec. 2] are welcome to us aficionados, some of whom remember the '50s and '60s. But you should brush up on your automobilia. You said, "The carmakers will revert to the national racing colors for their flagship images: silver for Germany, white for Italy, red for Britain." You got only one of three national auto-racing colors right, Germany's, which is indeed silver. But Britain's is green, not red, and Italy's is red, not white. DONALD L. STURGEON Wilmington, Delaware