Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HUGH EDWARD O'CONNOR, 33, TV actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. The son of TV star Carroll O'Connor, Hugh O'Connor played a small-town Southern law officer opposite his father in the series In the Heat of the Night. Off-camera, Hugh struggled against drug abuse. Hours after his death, police arrested Harry Thomas Perzigian, who has been accused of supplying drugs to the actor. The accuser: Carroll O'Connor...
...cautionary fable for the historian, it is also a sort of trans-century canticle whose themes resound through the decades in transmuted, enriched forms. Stoppard has devised the perfect setting for his verbal ambiguity and punning, as when he plays on the phrase "the action of bodies in heat." To Thomasina and her tutor Septimus Hodge, the words suggest the entropic universe of the second law of thermodynamics and the collapse of classical mathematics. But to Chloe Coverly, a distant descendant of Thomasina, those bodies are human and the heat is sexual. Words, no less than the house's visitors...
...that Talalay seems obliged to package these scenes of glorious heat lightning in the same ol', same ol', bad guy/good guy, action-movie plot. Although spoofing the conventional action movie is hardly original, Talalay's failure to comment on or corrupt the form seems naive, and betrays Tank Girl, forcing upon her the burden of morals. It's ironic that the three dimensional characters of the comic book become flat, at least in their simplistic division between good and evil, in the medium of film...
There's Coyote Jack and Sid Geeder the Mortgage King and some guy who flosses his teeth all the time. They're rich, sick, steeped in shame and caffeine, and "in the heat of sale, they needed to keep talking, and they said whatever came to them, as long as it was just color commentary ." So airless is this hive, it is not till near the book's midpoint that we learn that the office action, as distinct from the global flow of byte-driven hysteria, takes place in San Francisco. Some of the brighter salesmen muse about quitting...
...current trend toward relaxation of concealed-weapons laws continues, soon the most important gun restrictions may involve destinations: the states will probably allow various venues--public gathering places, offices, stores--to ban firearms on the premises. The only problem will be how to know who is packing heat...