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Perhaps the poignancy of these images derives from our sense that we are looking into a world now almost entirely lost. Perhaps it derives as well from the memories they stir of movie glories past, when sweeping historical spectacle was a cinematic commonplace. Then again, it may simply be the crazy nerve of this project that disarms one's critical faculties: the French and Indian Wars; a protagonist named Hawkeye; a red-coated English army marching in straight stupid lines through the forest; wily Indian enemies skittering through the underbrush, a menace not only to the soldiery but to virtuous...
Mokele Mbembe could hardly create more of a stir than we do in this previously undisturbed land. Gorillas stare and scream at us, and sometimes charge, but almost never run away. Colobus and cercopithecus monkeys crane their necks to eye us from high tree branches. Gloriously fat wild pigs, elsewhere the favorite game of hunters, look up from their rooting and peer at us calmly through the low brush for several minutes before moving off toward new forage...
...this battered ear, the stuff sounds like music. The highlight is the mesmeric thumper After All These Years, Ringo's anthem to "traveling the world in a rock 'n' roll band. It's in my blood! It's in my blood!" Ours too. This is retro-rock to stir any '60s survivor. Rise from your wheelchairs, Beatlemaniacs, and shout, "Yeah, yeah, yeah...
...remains an enigma to all but a tight circle of relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in the U.S., Ramos is more likely to stupefy audiences with statistics than stir them with rhetoric. The most informal thing about him is the cigar he keeps clenched between his teeth -- and the stogie has not even been fired up since 1987, when he gave up smoking...
...Peninsula's staffers, they saythey have no plans to abandon their penchant forcreating a stir...