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Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old pagoda and arrested about 20 of its monks...
...dominated its Japanese rivals so completely that Tokyo experts quipped, "When IBM sneezes, Japanese computer makers are blown away." No longer. Last week Fujitsu, Japan's largest computer company, unveiled what it called the highest-performance general-purpose computer in the world. The timing of the announcement stole thunder from IBM, which the next day introduced its own new generation of mainframe machines. IBM touted the new computers as its most important roll-out in 25 years...
...audience's lowest common denominator, The Two Jakes forces the viewer to pay very close attention while the plot unfolds onscreen. Towne returns to his former scripting glory (with a little bit of help from Nicholson) after sinking to an all-time low with the recently released Days of Thunder. The Two Jakes is a great detective story, with all the clues, (intelligent) action, and philosophical narrative voice overs that accompanies the best in the genre. But more than that, the film is about persons and their personalities...
...Days of Thunder has focused new attention on an old sport that is undergoing rapid transformation. Once a passion solely for the male tank-top, tattoo and feed-cap set in the rural South, stock-car racing is now going nationwide and upscale. This year more than 3 million fans in 16 states from Florida to Michigan to California will attend 29 races staged by the National Association of Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from...
SPORT: Days of thunder for stock-car racing...