Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their rainfall. The 32 acres of U.S.-leased land on both sides of the bay resemble less the lush semitropical island across the minefields than the set for a Hollywood western: sandy, rock-strewn hills and beaches, barren except for a random dotting of cactus. Hardly the site anyone would choose to build from scratch what amounts to a new city for 65,000 people...
Finding land on which to pitch tents for the balseros is no problem -- except to the 3,000 U.S. service members who will lose the company of their families and the use of recreational facilities. Tents, flown in from the U.S. mainland, are being set up on the base's softball and baseball diamonds, a soccer field, even the paltry sand-and-rock golf course; the beach where the soldiers and sailors swim will soon house the headquarters of a military- civilian task force that will oversee the camps. Military spouses and children are being flown out because of electric...
...sweltering, dusty and bare, and ringed by concertina wire. Humanitarian organizations and community-relations specialists from the Justice Department intend to set up church services, school classes, recreation programs. But for now there are no radios or TV sets, no music, no toys for the children, nothing to do except sit or wander back and forth, nothing even to look at except one another...
Does this make sense anymore? Except for flooding Florida with boat people, Cuba poses no threat to U.S. national security. It no longer has a nuclear- armed patron in Moscow buying anti-Yanqui mischief with $6 in billion annual aid. The whole world has passed by Fidel's moth-eaten socialism...
...Except, of course, that Stone doesn't let you stand back. NBK plunders every visual trick of avant-garde and mainstream cinema -- morphing, back projection, slow motion, animation and pixillation on five kinds of film stock -- and, for two delirious hours, pushes them in your face like a Cagney grapefruit. The actors go hyper-hyper, the camera is ever on the bias, the garish colors converge and collide, and you're caught in this Excedrin vision of America in heat. The ride is fun too, daredevil fun of the sort that only Stone seems willing to provide in this timid...