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...that help account for his successes--the cutting wit, the stubborn independence, the refusal to ask for help even when stakes are highest--also produced the more horrible moments of this campaign, when he seemed to be running for some other office in some other century on some other planet. Ultimately, says one of his primary rivals, "Dole's campaign is a reflection of Dole...
Hurtling in from space some 16 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into the dusty surface of Mars and exploded with more power than a million hydrogen bombs, gouging a deep crater in the planet's crust and lofting huge quantities of rock and soil into the thin Martian atmosphere. While most of the debris fell back to the surface, some of the rocks, fired upward by the blast at high velocities, escaped the weak tug of Martian gravity and entered into orbits of their own around...
...intense scientific scrutiny that is certain to follow, it will confirm for the first time that life is not unique to Earth. That confirmation, in turn, would have staggering philosophical and religious repercussions. It would undermine any remaining vestiges of geocentrism--the idea that man and his planet are the center of the universe--and strongly support the growing conviction that life, possibly even intelligent life, is commonplace throughout the cosmos...
...bite. And the movie's beautiful final shot in a lake eloquently reassures us of Holofcener's underlying sincerity. Apply whatever metaphor you want to the summer movie scene--drought, bloated big-budget feast of fast food--the independent gem "Walking and Talking" provides refreshing proof of life beyond planet Hollywood...
...that isn't Aspen or St. Bart's. Her cast of pseudonymously named, boite-hopping subjects includes people like Walden, a corporate lawyer who takes up with a Harvard graduate but refuses to introduce her to his friends because she is not sufficiently well proportioned. Those who win on Planet Candace are beauties like Camilla, 25, a woman who says things like, "Most of the girls in New York are just idiots. They don't know which fork to use. They don't know how to tip the maid at someone's country house...