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Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in 'Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...
This year the district sought and received $700,000 in new federal grants, which pay for, among other things, a newcomer center that provides intensive half-day courses in English as a Second Language. Shu Blong Her, a bilingual aide at Horace Mann Middle School, says new arrivals have an easier time now than when he arrived in Wausau in 1979. "I struggled more, but I'm moving up O.K. I'm getting used to the life-style of this country," he says. Wausau fifth-grader Chia Vang arrived five years ago and is currently fluent in English but still...
...Wall Street was not convinced. In addition to downgrading Orange County bonds to junk status last week, Moody's Investors Service called the county's behavior "outrageous and unprecedented." Says Zane Mann, publisher of the California Municipal Bond Advisor: "People are saying, 'Screw them. I'll never buy another Orange County bond as long as I live.'" This anger has larger financial implications. An Orange County default could push up the interest rate on all munis, so that taxpayers everywhere would be forced to pay more to build a school or a road...
...York City who likes to hang out with other kids in the Treehouse chat room on America Online, got E-mail from a stranger that contained a mysterious file with instructions for how to download it. He followed the instructions, and then he called his mom. When Linda Mann-Urmacher opened the file, the computer screen filled with 10 thumbnail-size pictures showing couples engaged in various acts of sodomy, heterosexual intercourse and lesbian sex. "I was not aware that this stuff was online," says a shocked Mann-Urmacher. "Children should not be subjected to these images...