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...Manila than I do in New York or Washington, where they have those large populations of Blacks and AIDS-contaminated homosexuals." He added, "It's unreal that tourism has almost dried up here because of that kind of fear when in fact this is a paradise. The Garden of Eden was on the outskirts of Manila...
Orson Welles: 1001 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 868-3600. Cinema 1: James Dean Festival: Fri and Sat: East of Eden: 1:30, 5:30, 9:45; Rebel Without a Cause: 3:30, 7:45. Sun: Giant: 1:30, 5, 8:30. Mon: 9/30/55: 2, 5:50, 9:45; Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean: 4, 7:50. Tue and Wed: (like Fri and Sat). Cinema 2: American Flier: 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8, 10:05 daily. Cinema 3: Kerouac: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; Insignificance: 3:30, 7:30 daily. Midnight Shows, Fri and Sat: Cinema...
...said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand, and I put it in my mouth. And I swallowed it. Dad laughed, then he didn't laugh; it got very tense. It was like the confrontation scene between Raymond Massey and James Dean in East of Eden. One of those moments when two worlds from diametrically opposed positions in the universe collide. It was as if I was saying, "That's your future, but it doesn't have to be mine...
Fischl country is a place of shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched...
...sense, the current fights over extinction theories are merely the latest variation of a venerable tradition that dates back to the early 19th century, when a growing corps of paleontologists and geologists had determined that the world is not the static Eden-like meadow of legend. At least intermittently, they concluded, it is an unstable, dangerous place, where vast numbers of species, like the giant mastodons, mysteriously disappear. Eventually, after analyzing the bones long thought to be the remains of dragons, they pieced together the almost more fantastical story of the dinosaurs and their inexplicable demise. They zealously...