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HONG KONG EPIDEMIC The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) continues to rage, with nearly 1,550 people infected - and 54 dead - in 14 countries, including 51 suspected cases in the U.S. There was hopeful news as investigators announced that they had identified a new virus, part of the coronavirus family (linked to the common cold), as the likely cause of the disease. But some of that progress could unravel, thanks to a decision by Hong Kong officials to green light last weekend's annual rugby tournament featuring teams from 24 countries. With more than 400 cases...
...glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home, all in wry, learned prose. Even when Cooney resorts to lies (for her mother) and booze and Valium (for herself), she never stoops to self-pity. "I understand that there is only one drug...
...quirky, Oliver Sacks moments--far from it--and Miller doesn't sentimentalize. She leads us lucidly, almost lyrically, through the neurological origins of the disease, and she doesn't spare us its ugly side, as when her father slams her into a wall in a demented rage. Her performance is an astonishing one, honest and free of wallowing, drenched in remembered pain but at a calm remove from it. When her father's end finally comes, Miller is brave enough to face her relief. "Guilty as I felt, terrified as I was, shamed as I felt for feeling...
...distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly now and preserves everything in pickle jars." In the end Abel comes home to a rage-filled father and an absurd, giant, paper-mache strawberry out in the yard. Symbolism, narrative arc, unexpected details and interesting characters are what make for the best short stories and "Giant Strawberry Funland" qualifies...
...that trait carries over here in such lines as "Nothing in this universe is as great as my love for you." And while Sarandon's wicked witch is campy in a good way, Daniela Amavia, as Paul's power-drunk sister, lacks emotional range; whether in moral turmoil or rage, she looks as if she is ticked off that someone messed up her mochaccino order. The true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about any drama that includes the battle cry "Send men to summon...