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...pregnant by another man and has never been able to have a child before--this may be her last chance. If her husband lives, she must give up the child. She loves her husband, she loves her lover and she also loves the unborn child (although she tries to chain-smoke it to death with her nervous habit). The doctor is forced to play the role of God, directing who will live and who will die. His own family history is juxtaposed with her story, according us unexpected insight. Kieslowski focusses on small images: the woman methodically snapping leaves...
DIED. JAMES L. "BUD" WALTON, 73, billionaire who with his older brother Sam opened the single store in 1962 that eventually grew into the Wal-Mart discount chain, the largest retailer in the country; following surgery for a stomach aneurysm; in Little Rock, Arkansas...
Scilingo, who retired from the navy in 1986, was moved to speak out by more than a troubled conscience. Last December two former navy colleagues were denied promotion because they had taken part in the torture of prisoners during the "dirty war." Feeling abandoned by officers up the chain of command, the two admitted the charges against them. Outraged that once junior officers were being disgraced while their superiors, "who are now admirals, with the agreement of the honorable Senate," looked the other way--resentment widely shared by mid-ranking officers--Scilingo began his taping sessions with Verbitsky...
...Bang at a single point in time. What we should ask is, When did the last Big Bang take place, and what did we inherit from the previous universe? There may never have been a beginning, only an endless series of Big Bangs and Big Crunches--an endless chain of past and future universes, born, collapsed and recreated, each inheriting something from the previous one, an eternal cosmic drama taking place in an N-dimensional space that our three-dimensional brain and senses will never fully comprehend...
Things only heat up in the second half, when Nan's calculated attempt to win the hand and fortune of a local Protestant aristocrat goes awry, starting a chain of events that ultimately jeopardizes Benny and Jack's ralationship. At the same time, the death of Benny's father gives Sean a new opportunity to practice his dastardly deeds, which eventually include voyeurism, embezzling, and (almost) rape. In the end, needless to say, everyone who deserves a partner ends up with one and the evildoers, never really menacing, are dispatched harmlessly...