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...news release, New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said that Young and Liberatore earned more than $500,000 from the arrangement. If Manufacturers had held the Colombia debt instrument, it would have made $1 million...
...narrator, a jaded Greenwich Village type, tells two related stories: the first a recollection of a filming in Colombia, and the second a recollection of the first deaths back in Germany. Though the first narrative (of the filming in Colombia in 1984) sets the background and fills in the characters, it seems a bit superficial. Perhaps this is somewhat intentional. Indiana often slips into seemingly unnecessary and indulgent stylisms, which act as nothing more than glittery accessories. Though possibly a reference to the Accessories Decade, these long-winded descriptions (usually of sex, sexy characters, or drugs) come too frequently...
From the glossy surface of Indiana's prose, small but powerfully political quips often burst forth. However, these moments do little to sustain the overall ho-hum drama which is meant to propel the novel. It reads as if a Dynasty script meets "Miami Vice" in Colombia followed by the same Dynasty script meeting. "The Living End" in Germany. And this is all retold, often second-hand, by a not so reliable narrator in New York sometime later. Oh, and a serial killer lurks about the pages. This allusion seems so cliche it's forgettable, but so irritatingly contrived that...
...come at a fearsome price. Beginning in A.D. 79, when the Roman scientist Pliny the Elder was killed while observing an eruption of Mount Vesuvius, volcanology has been one of the world's more dangerous fields of study. Over the past 11 years, sudden eruptions -- including major blasts in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines -- have killed an estimated 26,000 people; since 1979 at least 12 scientists have perished while seeking to plumb the fiery mysteries...
Rymer cautions that gravity data should be used only with more conventional forecasting methods. Moreover, the technique can be dangerous, since researchers often climb into a volcano to take gravity readings. Last month Rymer's colleague Geoff Brown died when Colombia's Galeras volcano blew just as he was setting up his equipment...