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...Daniel thinking about the Rosenberg case and view the movie as a statement about the Rosenbergs. Ironically though, both Lumet and Doctorow downplay the parallel with the Rosenberg case, and consequently any social or political aspects of the film. For instance, they insist that the opening scene--a striking closeup of Daniel detachedly and encyclopedically describing the procedure of electrocution--is an artistic device. Lumet, who directed the film in addition to co-producing with Doctorow, calls the scene an interior monologue, designed to reveal how Daniel is objectively attempting to make sense of what happened to his parents. Doctorow...
...spirit, existing on quick fixes of drugs and sex-for whom death is just the ultimate high. This kinky, doggedly erratic comedy was made in the city by Soviet Émigré Slava Tsukerman in a style that suggests a head-shop fire sale: garishly painted faces, a closeup of a heroin needle doing its dirty work, clever special effects computerized colors bright as an acic dream. Liquid Sky, now playing tc packed houses in a small Manhattan theater, is a two-hour act of imagination undisciplined by talent...
...Jersey field and turned aside every entreaty. The battle of Trenton was won by the determination of one man, but certainly not by his military expertise. Would he have done what he did on that miserable night if the failing campaign had been on the evening news with closeup shots of the ragged...
...damned stupidly"-operating the nuclear-powered satellites at such low altitudes that they easily become vulnerable to premature return. (If an object is launched high enough to avoid the upper atmosphere's braking effects, it can orbit indefinitely, like the moon.) At times, in order to do closeup snooping, the Soviets let their satellites descend to as low as 100 miles, then boost them up with onboard rockets to prevent any further orbital "decay...
Little has been heard since about the Turnh. He constitution, which the population was reported last summer to have "spurned." No surprise there--nothing but our unexpected closeup view had really set it off from any of the myriad other attempts to bring order out of the region's chaos. Since that closeup so abruptly ended, Namibian politics have seemed a bit remoter even to my family, and we no longer keep abreast day-to-day of who is assassinating whom and whose dreams have been the latest...