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...some volcanoes produce what is known as a pyroclastic flow, a ground-hugging cloud of superheated gas and rock that forces a cushion of air down the mountainside at up to 100 m.p.h., incinerating anything in its path. Other mountains spew that signature substance of the volcano: lava. (On this point Dante's Peak was wide of the scientific mark, concocting a fictitious mountain that produces both substances.) Lava moves at speeds ranging from less than 1 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h...
...through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It's the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. We want to feel for them. But not too much. We want our doomsdays to be thrilling. But not scarily final. Or fatal...
...through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale for the lava flows and firestorms, the lake that turns to acid (the better to eat their boat) and the blizzard of volcanic ash that eventually buries a small town. "We want to feel for them," Schickel notes. "But not too much. We want our doomsdays to be thrilling. But not scarily final...
Today's teenagers have fallen in love with lava lamps, those kitschy 1960s artifacts that featured floating lumps. So it's not surprising that the Clearly Canadian company has launched a line of soft drinks that bring the lamps to mind. The noncarbonated fruit-flavored beverages, called Orbitz, contain brightly colored jelly balls that can be sipped through a straw. Grossing out grownups is part of the plan. "If we are making 40-year-olds uncomfortable," says marketing director Jonathan Cronin, "we are probably making a teen very happy...
...cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava Lounge. Las Vegas is Lourdes to them; they drive there in the hope that some casino boss will think they are "money" (it's used as an adjective meaning radiating success) and offer to put them up in "the Rain Man suite...