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...base known as Area 51, talk-radio guru Art Bell spreads news of UFOs and sunken continents. To the northwest, in the Black Rock Desert, hippies and cyberpunks gather by the thousands for their annual Burning Man Festival, an orgy of punk rock, spontaneous gunplay and off-road motor sports...
...suspense right now, Face/Off is damn fine. But in sum, these films offer evidence that the action-adventure has reached a point of exhaustion. Seen as one 12-hour epic, this multiplex six-pack moves less on cruise control than on automatic pilot. This is zombie entertainment: cinema with motor skills but a dead brain...
...Coomer is another sort of adventurer, a landsman who falls in love with a 60-year-old, 28-ft. wooden motor launch with a short mast and a steadying sail. Coomer buys the boat for a reasonable price, which is much like adopting, for a reasonable price, a child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy...
...stripped and battered hulk of one of Larry's collection of '57 Chevys. In the frantic search for survivors, someone tacked a note to the front door of Larry's antique-auto-parts store: "Larry, Joan and the boys, I pray to God you read this. I have a motor home and travel trailer... Call me and tell me you made it. I'll bring you a place to stay...
...Motor Carrier Act of 1980 defined the industry's road to deregulation. Since then, the number of truckload haulers such as Bell has multiplied about threefold, to nearly 60,000. The act also unleashed such new rivals as United Parcel Service to take away customers from the complacent. "If you look at the list of the 100 biggest companies in the business in 1979 before deregulation, today there are only nine or 10 left," says Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association...