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...amazement can escalate into astonishment, that is the difference between Alegria and Mystere. From the black baby carriages at the beginning to the giant lumbering snail at the climax, director Franco Dragone peoples the stage with outlandish figures from a Bosch or Robert Wilson dreamscape. They have sad eyes or pinheads or faces on the backs of their heads, or they wander about pensively on stilt legs, passersby in the parade of life. They somnambulate while the acrobats somersault on a trampoline bent up at the ends, as others jump from one vertical pole to another using only leg power...
...awarded Pulp Fiction the Palme d'Or as best among the 23 entries in competition. But the picture threw the international critics into a tizz. They weren't sure they should approve of a work of popular art so enjoyably and cleverly crafted; after a week studying the snail trails of European anomie and Third World angst, watching Pulp Fiction was like sneaking out of a final exam to go on a bender...
Millman's thesis was on the ethnic implicationsof Rhode Island snail salad, a dish which only hasthat name in Rhode Island and is consumed mostlyby the Italian-Americans, he says...
...mail is by far the most popularservice offered over the network. While overnightpackage delivery generally takes 17 hours, e-mailis virtually instantaneous. About 27 millionmessage travel over the Internet daily ,and thatnumber is increasing at such a pace that e-mailwill eclipse envelope-and-stamp "snail mail"within five years according to national estimates...
...will live, and who will die? Those who can traverse the Information Superhighway the best will be able to pass their dominant genes to those of the next generation. Technology rolls ahead, and those still living in caves will be left behind to write snail mail and watch simple 12 channel public television...