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...first taxi ride to the Archivo General, for instance, brought me some insight into the problem. I had seen the name Salinas all over the walls and posters of the city, and I wondered why he seemed to be receiving such widespread support. When I asked my cab driver, who went by the name Sr. Rodolfo, if Carlos Salinas de Gotari was the official candidate of the PRI, he informed me that well, yes, he was the candidate of the PRI, but more than that, he would be the next President of Mexico...
Malard has a fan-cooled house, and his big White tractor has an air- conditioned cab. The shelter belts of Chinese elms and Russian olive trees that he planted between fields have endured, and retard the dust and wind over the 1,200 acres he and his son farm. Malard's hunch is that the improved farming practices, the big dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri, farm ponds and all the other modern techniques will prevent the terrible devastation and suffering of the 1930s...
...dare or care to compete with Hollywood in the splatter sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like...
...this raw, gusty winter morning, Mary Goodrum is wishing she were someplace else than the cab of an 18-wheeler on an abandoned Texas airfield...
...radio suddenly spews a stream of static into the blacked-out cab. An agent scouting ahead for a gang of suspected drug smugglers has spotted his quarry. "They are at the edge of the brush," a voice whispers excitedly. "They are moving. I can see the sacks they are carrying...