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Indeed, the optics race is liable to take on ever increasing urgency. The struggle for discovery, though, will probably be well worth the cost. Says Robert Lucky, executive director of communications sciences at Bell Labs: "There's no telling where this technology is headed." Actually, there is. The alluring glow of optics is pointed straight toward profit and increased productivity...
Hard to see why. The film is no winner but no atrocity either. We are in Shanghai, 1938. Warlords and China dolls are bumping into faded carbon copies of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. That must make Penn the Bogart figure -- a hustler and self-styled "Glow-in-the-Dark-Tie King" who helps a prim but spunky missionary (yep, Madonna) find 1,000 lbs. of opium to help soothe the wounds of Chinese soldiers. "Guns cause pain," she says fervently. "Opium eases pain...
Bertagna manages to transform 250-odd pages of encyclopaedia material into attention-grabbing vignettes. Nonetheless, a few questions peek through the pervading glow...
...secrets piled on top of secrets lent a lurid glow that was not in the paintings. And the Wyeths, inadvertently or intentionally, added to the titillation. His decision to try to protect the privacy of Helga made the suspicious more so. And Art & Antiques reports that when Betsy Wyeth was asked what the works were about and why her husband had kept them secret, she took a long, pensive pause and replied, "Love." Did Betsy mean that the artist, known for his continuing and intimate relationships with the subjects of his paintings, was having an affair with his model...
...swathed in easy glamour, and Mark is that cuddly predator Jack Nicholson. Heartburn is a movie about old- fashioned Hollywood star quality -- the sort that, say, Irene Dunne and Cary Grant radiated almost 50 years ago in another love-and-divorce comedy, The Awful Truth -- and about how the glow of celebrity can blind anyone, especially a spouse, to the black hole of secret sins. What woman doesn't want to believe she is marrying a star? What man doesn't want to believe he is one? It is love's first innocent deception and the basis for the lies...