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...shoot his camera straight -- and in fairness it should be pointed out that at least he does not cut off the dancers' feet, a common Hollywood error. But in the long Kingdom of the Sweets sequence, the action is blurry. The Waltz of the Flowers, with its swift pace and swirling, swooping movements, almost falls apart. The choreographic patterns are unreadable, and even Nichols' brilliant dancing loses some of its definition...
...Ghosts of August," a family travels to an Italian castle owned by a Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum...
Working at Store 24 isn't easy -- it requires patience and stamina. Customer personalities vary widely. Robert and Bonnie reminisce about confrontations with vocal, swaying drunks tossing around change, yelling profanities and swift-footed shop lifters leaving behind bruised cashiers and empty spaces in the soda case...
...abused his wife and sons for years by a scholarly brother-in-law who pulls out a gun. Fichtner sinks into a chair, stares defiantly everywhere else and finally at his accuser, then thrusts his head forward straight into the barrel of the weapon. He conveys in the same swift deed a last spasm of dare-you defiance and a willing embrace of an end to his own pain. Although almost everything in Timothy Mason's stylistically messy melodrama has the power to surprise, nothing else comes close to that startling glimpse into a lost soul...
...Iraqi air-defense battery near the city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...