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Every evening, rain or shine, a crowd forms around a huge cross of flowers lying in the center of Warsaw's Victory Square. This floral tribute to Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, who died last year, has become the most potent political symbol in Poland today. Three times the government has swept it away, and three times it has been rebuilt by the crowds who come to pray and intone hymns. The cross is tended by a group of women who patiently replace wilted flowers every day under the watchful eyes of militiamen. Late each night the police move...
...swimming pool were just like everybody else's too. But little Steven's dreams were different. He dreamed of telling the stories of his strange land-wonderful tales of his home and his school, his parents and especially his friends-and making them shine like new. So every night he would tiptoe outside his ranch-style house and make a wish on the brightest star in the suburban sky. Over and over he would whisper, "Help me tell the story...
...deep survive without the benefit of sunlight to supply energy or help create food supplies. Rather, they rely totally on the earth's internal heat. Explains Marine Microbiologist Holger Jannasch of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, which operates the Alvin: "If the sun didn't shine any more, these deep-sea populations would still be growing, while we and all the green plants would die. They depend only on Mother Earth...
Though one shouldn't complain about the purveyor of such gloriously purient prose, it is tempting to wonder why Higgins doesn't try something a little more ambitious now that he has buffed the Boston low-life novel to such a perfect shine. The Patriot Game, in fact, would have been an excellent opportunity, because in it he touches on--but ultimately skirts--the issues of the American Irish feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that...
...strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages to be both shy and cunning, Rourke has the potential of a young Jack Nicholson. However bright his star may shine, though, he could have trouble finding a movie that offers him as sexy a role-or the audience as much unforced pleasure-as this small...