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...front of Thursday's Boston Globe, a local story was given so much play that one might have thought it described a modern-day miracle. In it, two Globe reporters described their experiences riding with passengers in the newly-opened "High Occupancy Vehicle" (that's HOV to you) lane on the Southeast Expressway. One reporter stayed with the "rabbit," the car in the fast lane, while another rode shotgun with the "turtle," the car on the regular highway. Contrary to the fable, needless to say, the rabbit won. Cars carrying three or more passengers can ride in the adjustable lane...
...day-in, day-out basis--besides, of course, the spectacle of a beloved celebrity on trial for murdering his wife in an unusually gruesome fashion--was the underlying portrait it painted of a particular time and place. Here was precisely the kind of teeming social canvas that the likes of Dickens, Thackeray, Balzac, Eliot and Flaubert used to such great effect. We met earthy Salvadoran maids, beadle-like cops, bumbling civil servants, stalwart limo drivers, beaten-down screenwriters manquas and, of course, comically obsequious houseguests. Occupying the top of the social pecking order in this modern-day Middlemarch...
...August 1, 1944, the Polish Underground resistance started fighting the Nazis on the streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only 10 miles from Warsaw, coldly watched thousands of Poles being slaughtered. The Western democracies were outraged and this became one of the prime pieces of evidence on the side of those who believed that the Soviets could not be trusted in the post-war world...
...MODERN-DAY BOMBS ARE MANY TIMES as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, and the consequences of their use are even more horrific. What else do French scientists need to know? PETER KIDDS Workingham, England...
...picture) is an anonymous metropolis where it rains all the time and no one seems to have paid his light bill. The murk hides some (but not all) of the grisly details. Murk is also the auteurial hallmark of director David Fincher (Alien 3). Aiming to be a modern-day Bosch, he ends up doing MTV bosh...