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The O'Shaughnessy falls into a different category, and not just because it's so big. It's also quite useful: the cool, clear water it impounds flows to some 2.4 million people and 75,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the power generated by that water...
What about even bigger, more significant dams? Well, no one has seriously suggested demolishing the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia, but a coalition of environmental groups has taken aim at four dams on the lower Snake River--and stirred up a storm of controversy. The damage those dams have...
Running after Moss are that world-weary local sheriff, whose name is Bell, and the murderous Chigurh, who works for the druglords but makes it a matter of principle to whack anybody who looks at him funny, and some who don't. Chigurh isn't just testy; he's mesmerized...
There is something useful, too, in Lincoln's humor. At a time when we both take ourselves desperately seriously and scoff off all attempts at meaning, we can learn something from a man who saw life as serious and deeply absurd, and who drew on both to fuel his deep...
The versatile Cleese, who studied law at Cambridge and co-wrote a psychology book titled Families and How to Survive Them, is now as busy as ever. His latest theatrical movie, Clockwise, opened last week in New York City. But he seems to be especially fond of his Video Arts...