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...Scott and the other explorers recall their experiences, they foreshadow larger events. The dinner parties and official send-offs suggest a fatal national overconfidence. Scott's sensuous, assured wife already has one lively foot in the jazz age. In a hemisphere where seasons are reversed, birthdays and Christmas hint at endings rather than beginnings. Sailing south in summer heat, the men sleep on top of the ship's ice locker...
...stories we have seen in the Western press are pro-Tutsi and one-sided. More than 99% of Hutu are also against the ethnic killing of the Tutsi. The disaffected members of society, organized into street gangs, are the ones killing -- and not only Tutsi but also Hutu. You hint that both ethnic groups (not tribes) have broken promises. If you look at history, it is obvious that Tutsi have killed more often, targeting educated Hutu, than Hutu have ever done until now. Under President Juvenal Habyarimana, both Hutu and Tutsi were learning to live together...
...quick hint to Joe Pesci's oh-so-lovable-character: if you are trying to keep your asbestosis condition under control, the one place NOT to make your nest is in a nook of Widener Library...
...still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic corruption (barkeep Wayne is also the town sheriff) and reveals the equally conventional link between crimes present and a large crime past...
Warner got its first hint of a synergistic gold mine by monitoring the sales of animation cels (individual painted frames of a cartoon) on the art market. Cels of the sort the company had capriciously destroyed in the early '70s were selling for upwards of $10,000 a decade later. These works are a prestige staple of the Warner stores. As Chuck Jones, ace director of Warner cartoons, notes, "The French Impressionists were an art form that became a business. Animation is a business that became an art form...