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...Minister Prince Sultan Wednesday finally buckled to American pressure to split the $200 million cost of relocating 4,000 U.S. troops to another spot within the kingdom. U.S. officials have wanted to move the troops as a precaution against terrorism; their proposal came in response to last month's truck bombing at a Dhahran military complex that killed 19 Americans. It was the second of two such blasts since November. The first killed five Americans. The troops will be moved to an air base that already is used by American troops in Al Kharj, about 50 miles southeat of Riyadh...
...caliber, stage tricks such as shooting fireballs and a chandelier falling in slow motion almost draw away from its dramatic power. The constant flashing of light as the chandelier rises to the ceiling during the overture is particularly annoying. Audience members may wonder whether they're at a monster truck show or an opera...
...Schumacher paints by the numbers, but he does it well, guiding the movie along the parallel tracks of escalation (in court, out of court) that the novel handily provides. From the very beginning, following the careening path of the redneck's pick-up truck, we feel it's rolled right off the pages on to the screen. Readers of the book might become bored because of its own decidedly cinematic feel: Ruby-style shooting of suspects, Ku Klux Klan marches against Carl Lee's supporters and the like...
Poor access to the store is such a problem that even Tweeter's stock truck must park on the sidewalk to unload...
...terrorist, in any case, dreams of such results. Any one of those suitcases on the conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...