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THIS YEAR'S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTED ON A steamy note with the screening of an uncut Basic Instinct. But lacking the luster of glamour fests past, Hollywood on the Mediterranean soon turned into a Basic Bore. Jurors opted for predictable choices. The Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor, went to the Ingmar Bergman-scripted Best Intentions, an elegiac love story produced for Swedish television. Other top awards went to director Robert Altman for his wry Hollywood basher The Player and to actor Tim Robbins for his deft portrayal of an unctuous studio head in that film...
...turned out that the authors of the original T.F.A.P. had chosen spending targets not by the size of their uncut tropical forests but by their ability to digest large amounts of money. Says Bruce Rich: "It was a plan that was really devised according to the needs of the aid agencies rather than the needs of the countries...
...exporter of forestry-based products from the start of the 21st century," T.F.A.P. proposed construction of a 370-mile road through virgin rain forest that is home to 50,000 Pygmies. Many environmentalists wondered, By what logic do building roads into pristine areas and financing logging operations help preserve uncut forests...
When is gift wrapping a gift in its own right? When it's made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family...
Because the caches nosed out by doggy detectives may be uncut and especially potent, even small ingestions can be extremely dangerous, sometimes causing death on the spot. An article that Beasley and a colleague published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends, among other things, that police carry artificial resuscitation devices for their four- footed friends and a supply of activated charcoal that the dogs can swallow in solution to absorb most drugs before digestion. Because dogs, unlike their masters, just...