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...Underneath this inelegant collection of cinematic scraps is a pretty fair notion for a thriller: how the smooth, ambitious organizer of a small cell of industrial and political informers programs each of the members to kill one another. The members take information from various fields of specialization and pass it along to a clever control, who uses it in turn to blackmail and barter for positions of power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right...
...energy that heats the homes of the Paris suburb of Melun (pop. 42,000) comes from a highly unusual source: a natural underground reservoir of hot brackish water located more than a mile underneath the town. French engineers boast that the system for tapping geothermal energy is the first of its kind. What makes it unique, they say, is the fact that the water is piped back into the ground for reheating, which means that Melun's subterranean furnace could keep working almost indefinitely...
About Paterson is in many ways a politically naive work: Norwood chooses to treat Kramer's 1969 re-election as a tribute to the city's spirit. "Paterson had every reason to seek an easy way out; but the city did not choose to do so," she writes. "Underneath its hates and fears and confusions, the city's fiber ran strong." But one wants to know more about where the votes came from that kept Kramer in office, and how he managed to get them to the polls...
...take on a symbolic importance after one has walked through the show three or four times. Thirty-one of the 79 contributors wished to remain anonymous. Another 19 listed themselves as Mr. and Mrs. or Mrs. and used the husband's name with the woman's maiden name underneath in parentheses, as if the two names belonged to different people. This is admittedly a small point and doubtless caution overcame pride for many of the collectors but nevertheless how we identify ourselves can be important in determining how we and others perceive...
After long seasons of Big Rhoda jokes, the star finally put her weight -and her foot-down. Viewers had long suspected that underneath the avoirdupois there was a slim beauty screaming to get out. Now she emerged funnier than ever-and too big to stay put. Thus Rhoda was born...