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Port Moresby (John Malkovich), the protagonist of Bowles' story and of the swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film that Bernardo Bertolucci has made from it, is traveling with his wife Kit (Debra Winger) and an upper-class twit of a friend (Campbell Scott). He lands in Algeria, a hot, arid country where each hotel is more primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity...
Bowles made this caravan of horrors persuasive by suggesting that tragedy was the destination his travelers sought. His prose got under the skin of . hapless Port and Kit and revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical...
...latest weapon in the antidrug war, Drug Alert was developed in Israel and is used by U.S. agencies for drug interdiction. It is being sold in a $49.95 kit for home use, which includes two spray cans designed to detect traces of marijuana or hashish and one for cocaine and crack. While Shertest Corp., the New York-based distributor, considers the test accurate, it suggests that any positive result be confirmed by a laboratory. The tattletale hues do not necessarily prove drug use; they only indicate that drugs had touched the tested surface. "We do not test people; we test...
Vest is not expected to provide a medicine kit of remedies for MIT's problems, but faculty members familiar with his career say his demonstrated skill as a listener will prove to be invaluable...
...Canal Vu. Toxic-waste-disposal kit may be required...