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...York City and Los Angeles), Whoopi was the target of a "declaration of war" by a black group opposed to the project. "We talked it over," she says, "and the problem was more or less fixed. But, yeah, you feel fear. They had issued a license to any nut who wanted to take me out." As usual, death threats or not, she was thoroughly professional for the filming. She arrived in South Africa with her accent down pat, according to Darrell Roodt, 29, the white director. Her acting is wonderfully instinctive, he says, and watching her, he would think...
...novelist William Vollmann displays the exasperating immaturities of a precocious teenager. He is a self-mythologizer who refers to himself with heavy irony as "William the Blind." He is utterly and humorlessly self-absorbed and believes his own sensibility to be unique. He rolls out for display every nut and grain that he has squirreled...
SOMETIMES HE FEELS LIKE A NUT...
...access to American missile technology of the sale goes through. Admittedly, this should generate some uneasiness. The French might well use this knowledge to build advanced weapons and sell them to Third World nations like Libya. Keeping the technology secret keeps such weapons from some of the world's nut cases...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...