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...Fargo" opens with a lonely shot of a highway cutting across the frozen plains of the midwest. In the distance, the line of the horizon is blurred by the grey sky and snow-covered ground. This may be the only scene in the film without clearly defined visual and narrative lines. Instead a cold, dark mood takes hold. Somwhere in the distance, the Coens seem to be telling us, awful things are about to happen, and we're going to be witnesses...
That makes it the closest comet since 1983 and gives it a leg up on visibility (Halley's came no nearer than 39 million miles). Better yet, Hyakutake's trajectory will place it high in the northern sky when it reaches peak brightness this week, so that it will be visible for most of the night over most of the northern hemisphere...
Before leaving for the competition, Galindo will go through his usual drill. He will kiss two stuffed monkeys dolls that Yamaguchi once gave him. Then he will round up the cats, Sky and Trucker (named for his father), and buss them. He used to have more superstitious routines, like lacing up the skate on his landing foot first. But he has eliminated that. "Now," he says with considerable determination, "I rely on training and hard work." And on memories of Jess, George, Jim and Rick...
...legendary hot-air-balloon-flying publisher but with a once and perhaps future presidential candidate. Forbes made the Oedipal analogy himself last week when he said, with a smile, that if he won the Connecticut primary, "I wouldn't need a balloon to get in the sky...
TREES DON'T GROW TO THE SKY" IS the way generations of stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down. But that ancient bit of sententiousness is out of favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point...