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...scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet, overhead fans, unknown soldiers and shrouded figures punctuate Harry's waking dreams, inching him closer to the terrible truth...
...Bedtime. The overhead bulb is turned off, but the night-light allows the guards to check through the judas-hole in the door. They monitor him frequently, sliding the cover aside and peering in at the sleeping prisoner...
Helicopters hovering overhead dropped rescue workers to grab survivors, many of them wearing orange life vests, and haul them to safety...
...frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments. As a nurse guided his wheelchair out of a hospital elevator, only the presence of an escort with an official- looking radio suggested that this was a special patient: William Casey, until last week the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
Cutting costs and obtaining "layered financing" from different sources are fundamental techniques for keeping down the price of new construction. In South Boston a bricklayers union reduced its overhead on 18 units of moderate- income housing by obtaining a $1.5 million construction loan from a local bank at below prime rate. The reason for the discount: the union agreed to invest $1.5 million of its pension fund in the bank's certificates of deposit. In nearby Somerville, Mass., the nonprofit Somerville Corp. used $484,000 from a 1984 federal Urban Development Action grant to attract more than $2 million...