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Coolidge Corner Theatre. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. Through Thursday, Nov. 5. Laws of Gravity at 9:45 p.m. Adam's Rib at 6 p.m. Feed at 7:25 p.m. Panama Deception at 5:45 p.m. Tin Peaks Fire Walk With Me at 9:10 p.m. The Blue Eyes of Yonta...
...when they were alive. We gaze at their frail icons with reverence -- the replays of French Cubism with sturgeons, Cyrillic letters and Tolstoyan beards playing hide-and-seek among their facets; the posters exhorting us to "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"; the constructions of workers' materials like tin and rope and painted wood; the disembodied black and red squares of now cracking paint. French gallerygoers 100 years ago never felt like this about the art of the French Revolution. Jacques-Louis David looked old-fashioned by then, whereas Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko...
...cheese puffs at dinnertime rallies, and spread his message: "We can't continue to widen the disparity between the haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom." Watt well knows the have-not side of that great divide. He grew up near Charlotte in a tin-roofed home with no electricity or running water. But he went on to law school at Yale and a career as a civil rights lawyer. He also got a bitter taste of politics when he managed former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt's ill-fated 1990 Senate race against Jesse Helms...
...biggest problem will be proliferation, not only of nuclear fuel and arms but also of poison gases, biological toxins and other awful things no one has yet dreamed up. If tin-pot dictators and drug cartels get hold of the technology, they will become increasingly troublesome. Even a cheap, radio- controlled model airplane can do a lot of damage if, say, it is carrying a genetically engineered anthrax spore...
...Hoyt, recycling manager at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, took over a solid-waste disposal program that had been costing taxpayers $1 million a year. A shrewd businessman, Hoyt was sensitive to hauling managers' needs and negotiated lucrative deals. Now, says one Navy officer, "not a tin can or newspaper falls to the ground on base." This year Hoyt's program is earning close to $800,000. "The key is knowing the market," he says...