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...hope to convince them that the Lampoon theysaw last night is not the Lampoon that we areproud of...They will drown in a flood ofapologies," Kelley said in an interview at thescene last night
...especially those living in the Southwest, should beware: the aches, fevers and coughs could mean something far worse. A mysterious ailment emerged last spring in which flulike symptoms become life threatening as tiny blood vessels throughout the lungs begin leaking plasma. Gasping for breath, victims literally start to drown in their own body fluids. The outcome in 27 of the first 45 known cases of the illness has been a quick death...
...They opt for women in every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown them in the bathtub." But while the dolls effortlessly return to life, the people in the novel, like the three pigs in the twin's version of the classic children's tale, tend to "get boiled." Atwood's comic parallels, even when a little heavy-handed, are always...
...Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum. The two children in "Light is Like Water" drown in a current of electric light. In "Tramontana," a Caribbean boy is driven mad by a wind that blows in the south of Spain...
CINEMA The explosions in Demolition Man almost drown out the futuristic satire. Fearless transforms a disaster story into a meditation on mortality. BOOKS The J.F.K. presidency gets a cool, fascinating analysis by Richard Reeves. MUSIC Jimmy Webb soars into the '90s with a lush and lyrical album. TELEVISION An adapted David Mamet play shows Jack Lemmon at his best...