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...levees and flood walls didn't collapse, pumps didn't break down, and most residents fled the coast before Gustav's landfall. There was much better preparation and cooperation, much less finger-pointing and obfuscating. And for all the TV footage of downed power lines and uprooted trees and windblown reporters, there were just a few reported deaths, and probably just a few billion dollars in damages...
...result, interaction between characters never feels entirely authentic and the message is undermined.Like his characters, Iñárritu’s no good at telling, but he’s wonderful when it comes to showing. Veteran cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto moves the camera dexterously from the bare windblown deserts of Mexico and Morocco to congested Tokyo interiors, squeezing desolation and beauty out of both. In the movie’s most original, riveting sequence, we follow Chieko as she drops ecstasy in a park and dances with a group of boys in a packed discotheque. It?...
...zipping around a racetrack; television network logos replete with spinning globes and sparkling call letters; scientific simulations displaying molecules at magnifications no microscope could achieve; and animal, vegetable and mineral objects more realistically portrayed than ever before. Says Computer Artist William Reeves of Lucasfilm, who created the image of windblown grass he calls Blowin' in the Wind: "I'm not going to claim it's just like nature, but I'm pushing in that direction...
...Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear to me to tell...
...blinding tropical downpour. Spotting a flyover a few hundred meters ahead on the highway, Raja raced for shelter. A dozen fellow bikers were there already. As three lanes of rush-hour traffic continued to roar past, more bikers squeezed in, huddling together and turning their backs to the windblown rain and the heavy spray from passing vehicles. Raja lit a cigarette, then tilted one of his rear-view mirrors to check just how bedraggled he looked...