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While inflation made consumers see red, the skies remained a relentless blue. The heat wave again proved that despite the best air conditioning and modern technology, people can still fall prey to nature's whims. The victims as usual were the poor, the old and the helpless. In Fort Worth, Patricia Harris, 17, left her son LaMont, 2, in her car while she went to work as a $3.50-an-hour hospital orderly. Within three hours, the temperature in the auto had reached 130° and the boy had died. In Fulton County, Ga., police found...
...wealthy industrialized nations, the study predicts adequate supplies of oil and other energy sources through 1990, but even before then the poor nations will experience serious shortages, with the outlook particularly bleak for the one-quarter of humanity dependent primarily on wood for fuel. Already the relentless quest for firewood in places like Africa's Sahel and the foothills of the Himalaya-to say nothing of such commercial exploitation as the denuding of the Amazon rain forest -has meant the annual loss of enough trees to forest half the state of California. One side effect: as the trees...
...southern Arizona now designated as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by California gold. They come now, still seeking the golden dream, from Mexico and Central America, an illegal but relentless stream. Last week the desert-beautiful to those who know it, deadly to the unprepared-claimed 13 more victims...
...notables streams through the pages. Here are the internationalists and the noninterventionists: Founding Father Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, certain that England is finished; William Randolph Hearst, "that gray and lifeless mask"; W.H. Auden, "loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot to make himself understood-except to his wife. In the end, War Within and Without is less history than love story, a testimonial...
...pace is slow but relentless, jarring at times, measured by a sickeningly warped sense of time that is disturbing even when it is almost boring. Intertitles warn of a slowly decreasing time frame measured first in months, and finally in minutes. Through the film, Kubrick never loses his eye for detail, using red to fantastic effect. The soundtrack groans initially with laughably melodramatic tones but turns into a collection of distorted household noises: plumbing gargles, airplane take-offs, TV gibberish, heartbeats, breathing, and chanting...