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...dating from the 11th century. When complete, the figure must have been 20 ft. long: Vishnu Anantasayin, the god Vishnu in cosmic sleep, reclining on the back of the serpent Ananta, afloat on the primordial ocean. It was found by French archaeologists 60 years ago in the western baray (reservoir) of Angkor--a man-made lake five miles long--and despite its corroded and battered state, its missing eyebrows and moustache (which would have been gold), its empty eyes, it radiates an extraordinary sculptural power amounting to magnetism...
Like Pulp Fiction and his 1992 debut, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino's latest film is populated with jive-talking killers and other lowlifes. The plot revolves around a streetwise flight attendant, played by Grier, who double- and triple-crosses a gun dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) despite interference from an ex-con (Robert De Niro) and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) who bounces between the two men. Filled with Tarantino-lingo overkill (the N word is reportedly used 10 times in the first scene alone), the film mixes ultra-violence with the director's usual pop-culture references...
...second act of "Goose and Tom-Tom" is just as odd as the first. Bingo (Jesse Hawkes) wanders in looking for his lost sister, whom he is rumored to be sleeping with too. In a "Reservoir Dogs"-type violence-fest, Goose and Tom-Tom beat Bin-go into near oblivion, trying to get him to confess to stealing Lorraine's jewels, which he eventually does. Lorraine then orders Goose to kill him. After giving Bingo one last chance to see his sister, Goose leads him outside to be shot. Shots are heard, and the stage plunges into darkness. Though...
...Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's debut as a director, makes audiences squirm with the de-earification of a police officer by bad guy Michael Madsen...
Armey spent the campaign season building an enormous reservoir of loyalty among the surviving House members. In addition to campaigning in more than 100 congressional districts to raise $3.1 million, he donated an additional $1.5 million to individual candidates from his own campaign and his political-action committee...