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Disaster began when the celestial intruder crashed into what is now the Bering Sea, possibly creating a crater some 100 miles wide. The stupefying force of the impact, estimated at 100 million megatons, would have generated an enormous 3,000 degrees F fireball that would have spread outward at the speed of sound, igniting forest fires from North America to Asia. Several hundred billion tons of plants and animals would have been incinerated, sending great scarves of black smoke to join the impact dust in the stratosphere and circulate around the globe. What is more, because soot does not rain...
Even if American corporations become more aggressive and outward looking, certain industries will shrink and perhaps die as the world economy changes. Particularly vulnerable will be American companies manufacturing such products as basic steel, textiles and chemicals. Those require unsophisticated technology, and countries where labor costs are low can make them more cheaply. It now seems clear that the American economy overall will be stronger if corporations concentrate on products that maximize America's strength in high technology...
...hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within...
...some genres will. By the end, when these sunset adventurers take an outward-bound voyage toward a peaceful death, or into eternal life, this film has charted its serene course. One hopes that moviegoers will take Cocoon to their teenage hearts and make a box-office smash of the summer's sweetest, saddest, most exhilarating fable...
...after, and that possibility was finally more than they could bear. If the world is getting somewhat bored with Kremlin funerals, the men who act as pallbearers are surely terrified of them. Not only do the ceremonies serve as a kind of collective memento mori, but they are the outward manifestation of an inner process that must be highly traumatic. The Soviet leaders are among the most conservative on earth. They hate uncertainty, they loathe unpredictability. Leadership transitions are fraught with both. So this time around, they decided to cope with the dilemma by going to Gorbachev. That way, they...