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...just pop-culture icons to you and me, but in Germany their faith in the preachings of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism. Now Germany's stern attitudes are raising something of an international ruckus, fueled in equal parts by the assertive Church of Scientology, Hollywood luminaries and a U.S. government caught with conflicting objectives...
...Microsoft's business, this is a competition Gates plans to win. The group argues that the $10-per-unit royalty is too low. "Why charge more?" he asks. They explain that it will be hard to make a profit at $10, given what they are putting in. Gates turns stern. They are missing the big picture. "Our whole relationship with the consumer-electronic guys hangs in the balance," he declares. "We can get wiped." Only the paranoid survive. "The strategic goal here is getting Windows CE standards into every device we can. We don't have to make money over...
...racking sobs of the bereaved that proved unforgettable. AIDS grief has to be rationed, or the tears can become infinite; those quiltgoers had allowed themselves to remember. The sorrow was undercut only by a leather couple I saw under some nearby elms, two fellows in full bondage gear. The stern master lightly flogged his willingly shackled slave with a riding crop. "Oh, just stop," the slave complained. It had been a very long...
...sensibility of writer-director David O. Russell dictates that nothing and no one Mel encounters on his odyssey shall turn out to be what they at first seem to be. Mel's social worker is terminally randy; his real mother and father are major drug traffickers; a pair of stern federal agents are revealed to be gently gay. Russell observes these and other folkways with an understated objectivity that renders his comic subversions all the more deadly...
...pair of copulating life-size puppet jaguars manipulated by people hidden in the stage blackness. The animals produce a cub, which later turns into a human child--which still later changes from a puppet into a real live boy. Oversize masks hide most of the remaining actors, from the stern-faced schoolteacher with his crooked, elongated finger to a snarling, flamenco-dancing tiger tamer. Butterflies float across the stage, a miniature church breaks apart when leaves erupt from inside it, and a dancing skeleton in a bowler hat is a macabre emcee...