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...course, there's the little manner of establishing identity in a society where the government is always watching. The Coneheads are illegal aliens, and they are pursued by an overzealous...
Smith has sexual and material lures thrown at him from all sides, but far more troubling is the temptation to just give up in the face of an ingenious and seemingly unbeatable foe. Snipes portrays Smith's turmoil, confusion and anger in a manner which is constantly believable and consistently sympathetic...
...came around or over. (Yes, through. The water might go back through holes eroded in the levees or through gravity drains that are closed during floods but reopened to allow a backflow into the river.) Then comes the monumental task of cleanup. The receding waters will leave behind all manner of wreckage. Examples: the floating chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house...
...park as an inhumane cesspool. "The movie is not a fair portrayal of whales in captivity," argues Jim Antrim, general curator at Sea World in San Diego. "The trainer seems to be feeding the animal an inferior type of fish and often walks by the animal in an uninterested manner." Sea World execs charge that the movie is inaccurate on many levels, from the miraculously rapid affinity between Jesse and Willy to the malicious characterization of trainers, park staff and visitors. In one scene, dozens of customers bang interminably on the glass wall of Willy's tank, inciting the whale...
This week, when the Senate opens hearings on the Elders nomination, the rest of the U.S. will find out that the 59-year-old Arkansas public-health director is still a little different. While she has the bedside manner of the white- coated physician, she has also been a verbal bomb thrower, trying to wake up Arkansas citizenry to the health crises in teenage pregnancy and AIDS by promoting sex education, birth control and freedom of choice on abortion. Just after her appointment in 1987, Elders was asked if school-based clinics would dispense contraceptives. She replied...