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...fails to assassinate an ambitious Corleone street soldier named Nick Geraci, who then becomes his rival and nemesis. As plots go, it's a little thin, and Winegardner doesn't have much of a feel for Michael. Al Pacino played him as a tragic Mafia genius, a dormant volcano of repressed emotion, but here he's just an icy, hypercompetent sociopath...
...which has an up-front cost of $1 trillion. Third, Democrats are furious at the bilious tone of the Bush campaign and in no mood to cooperate on anything. The hyperpartisanship will continue to be fed by an increasingly divided and overheated media. Finally, Bush is sitting on a volcano in his own party. The vaunted discipline of the Republicans allowed only a few premonitory rumblings during the presidential election, but there is explosive anger among traditional G.O.P. fiscal conservatives--and also among those in the party who believe the war in Iraq was either wrong from the start...
...hard to see the divinity behind the water temples that dot the rice terraces of Bali. It's there in the white-clad high priest presiding in the temple at the summit of a dormant volcano. It's there in the 23 priests serving along with him, selected for their jobs when they were still children by a bevy of virgin priestesses. It's there in the rituals the priests perform to protect the island's water, which in turn is needed to nurture the island's rice...
Although not up to the sublime level of a typical South Park episode, the film has a fine array of raunchy gags, from a volcano of vomiting to the already notorious sex scene comprising many positions and much anatomically incomplete nudity. Parker, Stone and their marionettes also have fun at their own expense, detailing things puppets can't do (shoot pool, dance, plausibly engage in martial arts). The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Paris, Cairo, the Panama Canal, the inside of Mount Rushmore and a terrorist...
MOUNT ST. HELENS The hyperactive volcano is threatening to blow its top again. Here's how scientists monitor the fireworks...