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...PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD. In these politically correct days, most epic journeys into exotic lands are guilt trips, pinning blame for the world's woes on the evil white male. Director Hector Babenco's turgid trek into the Brazilian rain forest accomplishes this and more: it makes the viewer feel guilty for wasting three hours and seven bucks...
Deep in their hearts, most journalists know that it's a waste of resources to have 300 reporters covering a murky rape trial in Southern Florida while the economy is disintegrating, the tropical rain forest is vanishing, the Bush Administration is stumbling, and the AIDS crisis is worsening. But the public seemingly can't get enough of the Kennedys, so reporters pour in from Italy, from France, from Spain, from Britain, from Manhattan, from everywhere. "I am here because of the Kennedy name," says Yvon Samuel of France-Soir. "Willie Smith is a nobody...
...paper's late publisher, William Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...
Music, sound and lighting effects add significantly to the desperation of Hamlet's world. Claire van Kampen's score of trumpets, strings, percussion and piano-coordinated with sounds of wind, sea and rain-compliments the mood of accompanying scenes. The thundering chords, lighting and unearthly chanting of "Sanctus Spiritus" heighten the horror of the Ghost scenes. Strains of piano and strings underlying loving scenes between Claudius and Gertrude and later among Laertes, Ophelia and Polonius reveal the fragility of those moments...
...Mello had been expected to do the same thing when he designated 71 protected areas for other indigenous peoples. Instead, under pressure from the military and mining interests, Collor postponed his decision. Several weeks later, he changed course again. He announced that 36,000 sq. mi. of Amazon rain forest adjoining the Venezuelan sanctuary will be set aside for the undisturbed use of the Yanomami, who roam freely across the area...