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...surprise here. The director's four or five previous features - Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and the Kill Bill tandem - paid elaborate homage to, and ran elegant twists on, action films by otherwise-forgotten journeymen who were in no recognized sense auteurs; they were no-teurs. That's been a tonic corrective to the received wisdom about films: that, yes, there are still pearls worth diving for; you just have to look in ranker, more roiled waters. Hence, Vanishing Point's Richard Sarafian, and John Hough of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, and a true indie daredevil, H.B. Halicki...
...Recent developments in dream research won't make sense without first touching on the academic thunderbolt of 1977, when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense...
...reason to tread lightly. In January, after Indiana University's daily newspaper ran a photo of a traceur standing on top of a school arch, the university's police department served him with a written notice that if he did this stuff on campus again, he would be arrested. Although there are technically no laws against peripatetic back flipping, IU's Captain Jerry Minger says there are rules in place to protect school property as well as personal safety. "What if somebody came up with some kind of French term for dodging traffic?" Minger asks. "Dodge le traffique is great...
...Ignoring the rocking ground, he ran to meet his friends who were clustered near the beach, anxiously staring out to sea. A few minutes later they saw a terrifying wall of water race up the main boat passage into the town. "We thought there was going to be death," says Baul. "It came about the speed of a man walking - then it got faster and faster...
...group waited until the six-foot-high wave was about 60 feet away, then fled for the hills. "The people were screaming and starting to run upwards to the mountain behind the town," he says. "There was an old lady that couldn't run; some people ran to find her but she had already gone." Baul says the wave surged nearly 100 feet into the streets of the town, then receded. The residents all sat on the hill watching and waiting, too frightened to go back down. "Fortunately nobody was down near the ocean swimming," says Baul. "Everybody...