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Vida and her friend Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes, another stud star who looks swell in Dynel) are on the road with a third dragster, Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo, who is not so much a queen as a saucy serving wench). They stop for repairs in a nowhere town where all the men are brutes or louts, and all the women worn out trying to survive. That these Dust Bowl wallflowers are played by some of the most sophisticated actresses around (Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner and Melinda Dillon) suggests role playing weirder than any mere gender switching...
Nearing 1 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 3., just beyond the French navy's 12-mile exclusion zone at Mururoa, the South Pacific atoll where France plans to test nuclear bombs. Light wind. Half-moon. Waves from a far-off storm swell under La Rebaude, a broken-engined, radio-dead ketch owned by Greenpeace. The crew hands two black-painted sea kayaks over the rail. They are then tethered to a Zodiac inflatable boat already pitching in the water...
...that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen-better, seen-worse expression, speaks nothing but rich, working-class Sussex. Someone says, "Cheers," Baker revs the outboard and the little inflatable, low in the water, rocks away on the swell, towing the kayaks toward Mururoa. The air is still, and for 10 minutes more the whine of the Zodiac's engine can be heard on La Rebaude. Then, nothing...
...better sequel to the War to End All Wars. With a unified national will to defeat the Axis, and Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley operating at full throttle, every G.I. could hit the beach with a song in his backpack. Terrific songs, many of them. They still sound swell today, and they even look good on the bandbox stage of Manhattan's Blue Angel Supper Club in a larkish but poignant revue called Swingtime Canteen, directed by Kenneth Elliott...
...first hydrogen bomb, dubbed "Mike," on Nov. 1, 1952, on Eniwetok atoll, 3,000 miles west of Hawaii. It exploded with a blinding white fireball more than three miles across, generating so much energy, Rhodes writes, "that the crews of the task force 30 miles away felt a swell of heat as if someone opened a hot oven." The yield was 10.4 megatons, a force a thousand times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, a blast greater than all the explosives used during World...