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There is a hint of conspiracy here and even a dash of the apocalyptic. Hicks is no friend to modernity. He fantasizes about the rural "gardens" that were the early boarding schools, safe from the encroaching roads of suburbia. While it is true that suburbia is probably not fertile ground for great-souled heroism, Hicks' negative reaction is uncalled for and even frightening. Hicks has a dangerous vision of the world that he only partially shares with...
...years. By week's end, the fighting had cut almost all of them off from emergency relief, and aid workers were, as one put it, "running out of adjectives" to describe a disaster in which 700,000 refugees have no food, no clean water, no medicine, where orphaned children dash down roads for safety from incoming artillery shells. As for Hemingway's lovely lake, the expected epidemic of cholera would certainly adorn Kivu's shore with a necklace of corpses...
Commercials are a fact of life for every television watcher. Usually taken for granted as a time to run to the refrigerator or dash off to the bathroom without missing a precious minute of the game or the show, commercials have generally been regarded as a necessary annoyance. Still, these inevitable breaks in television programming undeniably reflect the culture of the times and, for some, are even held up as art. Selecting from more than 4,210 commercials from 16 countries, the Cannes International Film Festival in 1996 recognized 98 ads as being the world's best. Together, they form...
English is still recovering from the mad dash to finish the show. "There was not an iota of room for a mistake, a misstep, for losing a day or even half a day," she says. After all the pressure, she had a "momentary freak-out" half an hour before the first taping. "I was pacing around in my office and expressing tremendous anxiety. It all just came out. I was exhausted." The stars, too, sound relieved that the ordeal is over. "From the beginning, we poured our heart and soul into this," says Steenburgen. "Diane's biographical work...
...director of Cliffhanger, the bad guys are trying to blast our working-mom heroine (Geena Davis) to hell. The villains--the usual CIA renegades--slaughter a couple of dozen bystanders at a train station while the heroine and a private eye she's retained (Samuel L. Jackson) dash to an upper floor. The dastards follow and shoot a deadly fireball their way. The only escape is from a high window, but below is a frozen pond. No problem: Davis blasts enough bullets into the ice to make a hole just before she and Jackson fall...