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Within the confines of its conventions, the film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more...
...weeks, all Karen Reid of Oak Ridge, Tenn., heard from her son Scott, she says, was, "Reebok Pumps this, Reebok Pumps that." The fourth-grader wanted her to buy him a pair of the flashy high tops and explaining why she refused to part with $150 for athletic shoes got her nowhere. Then Scott read that the Pump was heavy and can be uncomfortable...
...fancies. That is why there is a scene in which Goethe and Ernest Hemingway meet in heaven to discuss their posthumous reputations. It also explains the frequent eruptions of presumably irrelevant aphorisms: "I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." Or "Music: a pump for inflating the soul...
Ciancio said that workers found it difficult to disable the pump on the roof. Even after the source of the leak was stopped, he said, dripping continued over the women's accessory department for much of the rest...
...idea behind Timberwind is simple. Just pump liquid hydrogen through a small nuclear reactor heated to several thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The liquid hydrogen is instantly converted to hydrogen gas, which then blasts out of a nozzle. The resulting thrust is two to three times as great as that generated in conventional rocket engines by the explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Much larger payloads could thus be lifted into orbit...