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...ranks seventh in state-owned forest land, with 364,370 hectares (900,000 acres). Another 109,320 hectares (270,000 acres) are wildlife refuges, and 11,740 hectares (29,000 acres) are solely or jointly managed by the Nature Conservancy. "To suggest that the state of Hawaii is a villain for recklessly demolishing its rain forests is insulting and unfair," said Senator Daniel Inouye in June, while asking Congress to appropriate $15 million for Hawaiian geothermal research...
...many summer films, the storytelling art is passe. These talented fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villain's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. And their tone is high facetiousness; the whole construct is an elaborate joke...
Most films offer the viewer one thing at a time to look at, one emotion to feel. A dyna-movie demands more; the eye must search every corner of the film frame for glancing gags. Look closely in the villain's lair in RoboCop 2 and find effigies of his patron saints: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Elvis, Oliver North. Listen hard to Gremlins 2 and catch witty details about zillionaire Daniel Clamp's cable empire. It includes 24-hour channels devoted to archery and laundry, and a movie channel featuring "Casablanca, but with color -- and a happier ending." Gremlins 2 should...
...cast of rogues, most of whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their stuff. Their leader is Pacino, who as Big Boy gives Batman's Jack Nicholson a lesson or two in how to play a comic-book villain: as part psychotic mastermind, part Hollywood dance director -- a Bugsy Siegel who wants to be Busby Berkeley...
...domed underworld of freak psychics and three-breasted prostitutes, ruled by a tyrant from whom the colonists must buy air, and he has just jacked up the price. It is on Mars, toward the end, that Total Recall slows down to tie up its plot and provide each villain with an appropriately gruesome demise. It goes wussily misterioso when Quaid meets a Yodaesque guru. But even when the film flirts with becoming ordinary, it is propelled by the stolid charm of Schwarzenegger, who carries the whole movie as easily as a dumbbell between his fingers...