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...lately. Over the past few years, astronomers have uncovered the existence of the Great Wall, a huge conglomeration of galaxies stretching across 500 million light-years of space; the Great Attractor, a mysterious concentration of mass hauling much of the local universe off in the direction of the constellations Hydra and Centaurus; Great Voids, where few galaxies can be found; and galaxies caught in the throes of formation a mere billion years after the Big Bang, when they should not yet exist. "If we really trust the data," exclaims Stanford astrophysicist Andrei Linde, "then we are in disaster...
...must say that we are not surprised by the staff's instinctive call for adding a new head to the hydra of Harvard bureaucracy...
Altman based the film's nine interweaving narratives on his (mis)reading of Carver's ouevre, taking a set of poignant midwestern vignettes and turning them into a heavy-handed Hydra living out its pointless existence under the scorching sun of Los Angeles, the city where dreams die, or whatever. Setting "Short Cuts" in L.A., with all its metaphorical baggage, was a huge mistake on Altman's part, though only one of many. The main one was probably in trying to translate Carver's fragile stories to the screen in the first place...
...facing a sophisticated Hydra of suppliers," warns CIA Director James Woolsey. More than 25 countries have or may be developing weapons of mass destruction. More than two dozen conduct research in chemical weapons or already stockpile them. More than a dozen have ballistic missiles that could one day loft nuclear warheads far beyond their borders...
Some of the confusion and opposition that occurred in developing the plan probably was unavoidable. The present health-care system is not really a system at all but a hydra-headed monster that grew by accretion over decades without any direction. Imposing any kind of plan on it is inevitably an immensely complicated undertaking, made more difficult because some people and organizations that have prospered under the inefficient nonsystem see any change as a threat...