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Throughout this film, one watches the characters struggle to avoid descending into a lifestyle with no order, hope or solace. Dishearteningly, life for Jimmy, Jon, Denise and Celia is so chaotic that in the end no real shelter from the craziness can be afforded, even by the closest of friends...
...first task Baker and his aides faced when they arrived at the White House was to impose order on a chaotic political operation. Decision making had ceased. Top-level meetings took hours and accomplished nothing. Second guessing and finger pointing were rampant. Advance men were refusing to journey to sites of future Bush events out of fear that they would be canceled en route. Bush had little confidence in his top advisers, and the strain was evident to anyone who watched him on television. Baker has told friends that before returning to the White House, he had discounted complaints about...
...first week post-Andrew was chaotic as government agencies tried to coordinate with each other. Price gouging was rampant--$5 for a small bag of ice, for example. The national guard moved in to enforce a strict curfew and protect residences and businesses from looting. Spray-painted messages on homes such as "you loot, we'll shoot" were common, as were insurance company names and telephone numbers...
...works in the test tube. The four got a piece of rabbit-heart tissue to beat chaotically and monitored the chaos with a computer. The computer, programmed with an understanding of chaotic math, then delivered anti-chaotic pulses. And the heart tissue's beats became nearly regular. Whether the drug would work the same way in living humans is another question, but the researchers predict that "smart pacemakers" might one day correct cardiac problems that are now largely intractable...
...Death and God in L.A., a new book of essays edited by David Reid, admirably avoids settling for any of these oversimplified pictures as a real explanation of the city. The book's sheer scope guarantees that the somewhat chaotic reality of Los Angeles does not escape the reader: there is the predictable section dealing with the movies, but there is also a refreshing look at the city's architectural significance, several personal and theoretical discussions of its racial and cultural make-up, in-depth analyses of the economic prospects of the Downtown region and a piece on the city...