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BOSTON--Sedated and sand-bagged, a large gray-and-white dog named Poochie lies motionless on a gurney. His mouth is wedged open to allow the linear accelerator above his head to aim radiation directly at the malignant tumor blocking his nasal passages...
...This is a very good, very updated center," says radiation technician Carla Peterson heaving Poochie into an unnatural-looking position on his back and balancing him with sand-bags...
...booster-rocket horsepower, today's sports-utility vehicle would have come in handy at the Battle of the Bulge. On the road its driver faces no obstacle more menacing than a pothole, but he knows that if he wants, he can swing off the highway and climb a sand dune, ford a raging river, grind deep into a trackless wilderness. Of course, he never does. He has to drive the kids to soccer practice. But the unused capacity hums beneath the pedals at his feet and feeds the fantasy. Watch him roar past you on the road...
...electrical circuit called an MOS transistor. Unlike trickier semiconductors, silicon is both a wonderful conductor of electrical charges and a nearly bottomless sink for heat, meaning it doesn't melt down as you push electrons under its surface at nearly light speed. Because it is made from refined sand, silicon is abundant as the earth...
...sonorous--perhaps soporific. But aided by Roger Deakins' pristine camera work and the euphoric drone of Philip Glass's score, Scorsese devises a poem of textures and silences. Visions, nightmares and history blend in a tapestry as subtle as the Tibetans' gorgeous mandalas of sand. For some, Kundun will be a slog. For the open mind and eye, though, this is rapture in pictures...