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...poet Robert Frost asked whether the world would end in fire or ice. Four years ago, Taylor and other geophysicists found evidence that the answer may be both. The message, extracted from an ice core taken in Greenland, at the opposite end of the earth, was that climate can change dramatically over short periods of time. Roughly 11,500 years ago, Greenland suddenly chilled, and then 1,500 years later, it suddenly warmed. The speed of the last change--an 18[degree] warming in some places in as little as three years--was fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented...
...identification with the child is more than that of one solitary with another. He was born in Greenland, as she was. Both of his parents are Inuits, natives of the region, as her mother was. Both have lost parents at an early age. And now, like Smilla before him, the boy finds himself trying to make a new life in Copenhagen, which to them is hardly the Danny Kaye song's "friendly old girl of a town." August makes us see it as dark and claustrophobic, stressing its contrast to the bright and limitless horizons of the land, essentially untouched...
...authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller--is there any other kind nowadays?--that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland's purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take form, the movie loses some of its superbly shadowed sense of menace...
...authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland?s purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take form, the movie loses some of its superbly shadowed sense of menace. "It is the very great pleasure of this movie," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "that its truly haunting suspense...
...authorities as she begins to investigate the case. It will come as no surprise to devotees of the paranoid thriller?is there any other kind nowadays??that the victim is accidentally privy to information that threatens the secret plans of a powerful mining corporation to exploit and sully Greenland?s purity. It will come as no surprise to them either that as the conspiracy surrounding Smilla begins to take form, the movie loses some of its superbly shadowed sense of menace. "It is the very great pleasure of this movie," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "that its truly haunting suspense...