Word: desertic
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That question may be answered on Oscar Night, when his main competition for Best Actor will be genial, witty, accomplished Tom Hanks?the anti-Crowe. He carried the desert-island drama Cast Away alone on his sunburned shoulders. And he would win, if winning hadn't become such a habit for him (two Oscars and four nominations in seven years). Tom must be running out of mantel space. Will the Academy take a vacation from Hanks, and take a fling with the Wild Man from New Zealand...
...than English. It also received no nominations in the acting categories, but that omission didn't stop Braveheart or The Last Emperor from winning Best Picture. More important, Crouching Tiger fulfills every Academy mandate for epic entertainment: a big story, beautiful stars, sweeping vistas (it's got as much desert as Lawrence of Arabia and more forests than Gump), strong roles for women in a time when those are both a rarity and a plus. One other thing: it has some of the most enthralling scenes of motion and emotion ever put on film...
...over California. You sit in a chair that, when the lights go down, moves up and forward to put you inside a curved IMAX screen. The effect is of flying in a magic-carpet hang glider, gazing down at rivers, farms, skiers, hot-air balloonists, the coast and the desert, San Francisco Bay and, of course, Disneyland. As you pass over an orange grove, the scent of the fruit tickles your nostrils. You fly over a golf course and--whack!--a ball sails toward and past you. In this vertiginous, multisensory California tour, state of the art meets...
...Last week the second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...
...many pounds of water I could balance on my shoulders. Still, as an Australian and a pedant, I am heartily disappointed with the "reality" of the setting. What Jeff and his producers call the Outback is a lush, watery place in the rainy season, not the dry, red desert we associate with the word. And survive? The good people of Ogakor and Kucha are getting a whole lot of help. They may be on the peckish side, but as long as they're complaining about mushy rice you know they haven...