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...Listen, Buster," a close relative said during this difficult period, "nobody's staring at you, and when you suck in your gut like that, your eyes bug out." Not everyone understands sentiment. And as Waller wrote, "Where great passion leaves off and mawkishness begins, I'm not sure." He's still not sure, but he's headed there, leading a wagon train of believers. As of last week, Bridges had sold 4.1 million copies and had stayed on the best-seller lists for 63 weeks, 33 of those in first place. That's a lot of hankies. Steven Spielberg...
...theater, sets up the strange dialectic between fact and fiction when Dr. Petiot, unimpressed by the evil of the vampire on screen, mutters his disapproval: "This is ridiculous and clumsy." As the camera freezes the doctor's shadow, the viewer is invited to compare the distorted figure of the bug-eyed vampire to the well-groomed physician. Castles and cauldrons are not the doctor's style. He jumps on to the stage and into the screen to show us how real evil works...
...remarks that France, Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does. Aidid could smile ingratiatingly until the pullout and then launch a new drive for control. Then Somalia could plunge into precisely the disasters Clinton foresaw resulting from an immediate American bug-out: renewed clan warfare, anarchy, brutality and starvation...
Robert Winters says he caught the political bug in 1989 when he organized recycling programs for the city...
Robert Altman's Short Cuts -- one of the season's most widely anticipated films -- opens with shots of helicopters, photographed so they look like giant bugs as they roar across the night skies, doing battle with a little bug, the Medfly, terror of the California fruit industry. This periodic chemical warfare, in which insecticides are noisily laid down across entire neighborhoods, is one of the minor, faintly comic annoyances of Los Angeles life. All that technology; such a humble and primitive...