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...this forward motion comes naturally to Reeve, whose task-oriented and detail-oriented nature was heretofore applied to such activities as flying, sailing, scuba diving and horseback riding as well as working for such causes as the environment, children's issues, human rights and the National Endowment for the Arts. His success as an actor was a result of concentration and diligence as much as good looks. "I'm not a naturally gifted actor," he says. "Acting was a long process for me." He adds, "I was just getting the hang...
...Atlanta games deprived the TV audience of glorious uncertainty [PUBLIC EYE, Aug. 5]. Indeed, to tune in to the Summer Olympics was to confront images of prerecorded events decorated with music, slow-motion sequences and never-ending commercials. The spirit of the Games turned into a sentimental display of American athletic superiority. RAYMOND ROUBENI New York City...
...simply that if enough cosmic elements slop together for enough eons, eventually a molecule will form somewhere, or many somewheres, that can replicate itself over and over until it evolves into a creature that can scratch its head? Or did an all-powerful God set in motion an unfathomable process in order to give warmth and meaning to a universe that would otherwise be cold and meaningless? The rock from Mars does not answer such questions. It does, however, make them feel all the more compelling...
...great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...
Unfortunately, "Phantom's" only real drawbacks are its attempts at special effects. With a musical score of this caliber, stage tricks such as shooting fireballs and a chandelier falling in slow motion almost draw away from its dramatic power. The constant flashing of light as the chandelier rises to the ceiling during the overture is particularly annoying. Audience members may wonder whether they're at a monster truck show or an opera...