Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story that comes closest to Wolff's stunningly rendered "Powder" is "Transactions" by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff (No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng). As wonderfully bizarre as it poetic, it tells the story of a traveling salesman hawking American goods and culture ("Witch hazel. Superman. Band-Aids, Zane Grey. Chili Con carne...Camels") on a Caribbean island who buys a poor German girl that he finds on the roadside. Before taking the girl home to his sterile wife, they go to an enchanted spring/hotel/tourist attraction run by a woman with an obsession with Jet magazine...
...insurance policy and headed off to Florida with Martin. Three years later, when their money ran out, authorities say the couple returned to Belgium, where Martin met a homely financial consultant through a personal ad. They married quickly, but on their honeymoon in Corsica their car toppled over a cliff. Martin was only slightly injured while her husband died--giving her an $800,000 insurance windfall...
...Zazu, is more labored than in the film. But the show has few longueurs, some good new songs (Tim Rice and Elton John added three to the five they wrote for the film), and elaborately staged climaxes that really pay off. When Mufasa falls to his death from a cliff, he floats to the ground (suspended on wires) with a slow-motion grandeur that no movie special effect could...
...about the charming and increasingly wealthy Kenny Sahr. During the past year, he's been in dozens of newspaper, radio and TV stories. I can't believe, frankly, that I'm writing about him too. I mean, it's just so wrong. But like a lemming scampering toward the cliff, following in the giddy tracks of my brethren...I just can't stop myself. The story is too good...
Nobody is impressed with the extraordinary and supernormal events which transpire in cartoons. Cool as it looks, nobody ever says "Wow, how did they make such a great effect as to have Wile E. Coyote seem to fall off a cliff like that?" They drew it, that's how. And they can draw anything they want. Computer Generated Imaging gives special effects artists similar powers. Although GGI enables fantastic and beautiful sequences which could never before have been attempted, it also destroys the bewildering mystique of being able to portray something which the audience knows cannot actually happen...