Word: twister
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...that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic Movies...
...actually got to look inside a twister on June 21, 1992, when I was fishing at Skagway Reservoir, east of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Around noon, I saw dark skies building to the west, and people smarter than I started leaving. Shortly after 2, a wild cloud formation appeared about half a mile to the west. Great white fingers developed from the left and right and flowed quickly toward a black, horizontally rolling cloud, which lifted to reveal a huge, whirling black vortex coming straight at me. I threw myself to the ground but couldn't help watching. The outside...
...discussed in great depth the technical aspects of a tornado, but you barely touched on the emotional impact that a twister can cause. I was an avid lightning and storm watcher before a building I was in was hit by a small tornado. Although I escaped without any physical injury, I doubt I'll ever again enjoy a lightning display without wondering if there is a tornado with my name on it lurking in the storm. I wonder if Sheriff Donnie Joe Yancey, who played tug-of-war with a tornado in Arkansas, feels the same way. DAN STEWART Ashburn...
...other words, the "Twister" cover is only the most evident mark of the corporate control. More significant is the hollow nature of American mass journalism which allows photo-op politics and trash-talk campaign advertisements to be the focus of the evening news. When the candidates discuss "issues," the issues they discuss are marginal to the true concerns of the public. America desires an improved quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered...
...many television and newspaper crews descended on Los Angeles for the greatest show of the decade: O.J. It surely makes little difference to the producer of NBC Nightly News whether he leads with a story about Clolin Powell or Michael Jackson, a scientific discovery (hah!) or the release of "Twister." What makes for a good news story is not how broadly or deeply it affects its audience but how interested those consumers will be to hear of it. The editor must keep throwing popcorn to his or her audience in order to keep the elephants alertly placated in front...