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Since June 1, Union Summer activists have fanned out to 20 cities. Paid a stipend of $210 a week, they are given free housing: an East Boston, Massachusetts, convent; a Chicago youth hostel; a Beaufort, South Carolina, trailer park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers...
...Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July 4, ID4 has soared into flyboy heaven for the climactic dogfight between Us and the Evil Other. You saw the movie's trailer--didn't it promise you fireworks? All right, ID4 delivers...
...most urban and suburban Americans, home treatment systems probably aren't worth the hassle or expense, say independent experts. "In general, the greater risks lie in small community developments like trailer parks that opt not to be part of the water supply of a larger municipality," says Daniel Okun, a retired professor of environmental engineering at the University of North Carolina. "The point is to find out what's going on in your local water supply...
...There was a lack of cynicism," says Hanks of that era. "In 1964, everybody still believed in the carousel of progress." Directing has given Hanks a new appreciation for acting. "If you squint your eyes as an actor, it looks like you're on vacation. You're in a trailer, people bring you food any time you want it and you lollygag your way to work." On the other hand, "directing is the hardest work you could possibly imagine." As for the Orson Welles model, he says, "Actually, I'm the new Orson Bean...
...That is to say, they reduce them to a succession of spectacular set pieces either so familiar that they require no explanation or so spectacular that they momentarily overwhelm disbelief. It's as if they were making a musical that was all production numbers, no book; or an infinite trailer that is all effects, no affect...