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...plays a woman on trial for murdering a lover by inducing a heart-straining sexual frenzy. It sounds like a promising part for the best-selling author of Sex. But movies get rated, and trying to stay on the sunny side of an R, this one turns into a static courtroom drama -- and not very well made or played either. Madonna's function is to irritate the decorous and titillate the impressionable. It's a waste of her time (and the moviegoer's) to, er, shackle her to a respectability on which neither party...
...AGONY OF Sarajevo before the world's eyes. But in many other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war's victims are dying unseen. Amateur radio operators desperately broadcast news from Zepa, a small Muslim enclave in a Serb-controlled region 35 miles east of Sarajevo. Through the static, they reported that in one 24-hour period last week, 85 people, including 51 children, died from cold and hunger...
...orders to lie down and keep quiet, finally fingering the trigger of his M-16 and asking his gunnery sergeant in a whisper, "Shall I blow him away?" The answer was no. All journalists, even experienced ones like Wilde, have been bedeviled by kat-chewing thugs, pesky mosquitoes and static-stricken telephone lines. "Nearly every correspondent has his story of being robbed at gunpoint, usually by preteen kids," reports Wilde...
...process, the Palmers and their colleagues are transforming speleology -- the study of caves -- from an oddball hobby into an extraordinarily fruitful field of scientific investigation. Old views of caves as static places untouched by time or weather have been shoved aside. Replacing them is a growing understanding of the complicated ways in which caves interact with the land above and around them. "Wondering where a cave goes, what is down there and how it formed is really the essence of science," says Art Palmer, who is a professor of hydrology at the State University of New York at Oneonta...
Blake Lawit's Artie Shaughnessy is convincing when being self-involved and petty; he is less convincing when there are momentary possibilities of greater emotional depth. The character and his action at the end of the play are only interesting insofar as we actually believe that he is not static, that he at least sometimes agonizes over Bananas, that he once really loved...