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...does he reach such a conclusion? Director Martin Scorsese does not attempt to explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
...work that runs through May 7 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, then travels to eight other American cities, there are two DeCaravas on the walls side by side and often in the same picture: the DeCarava who relishes the way light makes a sawtooth descent down a metal gate, and the DeCarava who mulls over the pleasures and predicaments of black life in America. To the question of what's personal and what's political, what's lyric and what's documentary, he offers back a teasing answer...
...convention. We decide when our day begins--half a solar period past the sun's zenith (not counting daylight savings time). And we decide when our year begins. It's our excitement at our own conventions that annually brings half a million of us to worship drunkenly the descent of a shining ball in Times Square...
...Galileo goes into orbit, a probe that it will have released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official...
...military officers fear that when the reservists called up for the elections go home and the noisy celebrations are over, Algeria will begin burning once again. Until now, those who hold power have refused to share responsibility for the country's descent into chaos, or to acknowledge the deep roots of Islamic fundamentalism in Algerian society. And if there is to be peace in Algeria, secularists and Islamists will have to bridge the chasm that lies between them. The election seems unlikely to provide such a solution and, tragically, may prove little more than a momentary pause in a long...