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...effort was like "trying to catch a football that was flopping down the road at 40 m.p.h.," said Bill Rothe, Williams' fiance, who watched from the ground. At 3,500 ft., about ten seconds before impact, Robertson caught up with Williams, almost hitting her but slowing his own descent by assuming the open-body froglike position. He angled the unconscious sky diver so her chute could open readily and, at 2,000 ft., with some six seconds left, yanked the rip cord on her emergency chute, then pulled his own rip cord. The two sky divers floated to the ground...
...built over hundreds of feet of soft black mud, deposited there, over thousands of years, by the Mississippi. The mud comes from the Midwest, all the way uup to Minnesota, along with the tourist hordes who contribute their dollars and their considerable collective weight to the city's inexorable descent towards Australia. When we were there, mind you, most of the buildings were still very much visible. The locals, for their part, seemed unconcerned about the dreadful fate awaiting them in just a few brief moments of geological time. The NCAA Final Four games were happening at the Superdome...
Some ask how the U.S. can call Soviet legal procedures unacceptable when used against Soviet dissidents but appropriate for supporting charges against accused Nazis of Baltic or Ukrainian descent. An unlikely coalition shares that view, including liberal former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is Linnas' lead counsel, and conservative ex-White House Aide Patrick Buchanan, who has called Soviet justice an "oxymoron." Leading the other side are Jewish organizations, committed to punishing perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the Justice Department, which says it sometimes has no choice but to settle for Soviet evidence. "The documents and the witnesses...
...concrete experiments, are like CPR for the senses. Without them, nothing one does with the eyes and hands involves the brain. Education should bring the physical and the mental together. Otherwise the physical becomes something separate, sensory but senseless. We all recognize the dangers mindless physicality: body worship, the descent from the erotic to the obscene. But the mind, separated from the body, also diminishes; intellectualism blurs into asceticism. The isolation of senses from thoughts is as dehumanizing in philosophy as in pornography...
Glowacki's text, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka, benefits from lively staging by Arthur Penn and sensitive performances. Ron Silver bearishly evokes the descent from self-doubt to despair. Dianne Wiest (an Oscar nominee for her role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters) bubbles with fantasies of redemption: she stuffs a pillow under her clothes and says she will have a child; she tells an enigmatic joke and vows to become a stand-up comic. Each gently deflects the other in a tender marriage, unharrowed by grief...