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...talking about Club Med--you know, the posh resort chain that bills itself the "antidote to civilization," where decadent New York singles trade in dollars at the beginning of their stays for the clever, back-to-nature currency of beads...
...resort and university town of Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of San Francisco, Heidi Nyburg was enjoying the ocean view as she strolled along West Cliff Drive. When she approached the Dream Inn, where she works as a desk clerk, her serenity vanished. "Cars were bumping up and down. People were falling off their bikes, running everywhere, getting out of their cars. Women were screaming. It was panic." Blocks away, turn-of-the-century houses swayed and crumpled. The entire downtown area, including the Pacific Garden Mall, was devastated. Three people were crushed to death. Outside Santa Cruz, the community...
Much of Dangerous Liaisons 1960 takes place at a beautiful ski resort where the characters smoothly glide about, manipulating each other in a highly artful fashion. Valmont manages to slyly keep Marianne's glass full of wine at a New Year's Eve party and then uses the excuse of midnight to steal a none-too-chaste kiss. The film makes ample use of symbols in its framing of the shots, particularly those of the food. The characters also find themselves mirrored and foreshadowed by a series of very suggestive paintings...
...effect is unclear. Does this hypocritical ban on killing in the national interest make actual killing harder? Or easier, by allowing us to "do that kind of thing" while preening that we really don't? I'm not sure. Removing the most surgical tool of war does make the resort to war more difficult. Given our flighty negative enthusiasms -- Gaddafi yesterday, Noriega today -- that may be no bad thing...
...instructed 63 surviving members of the Lebanese parliament elected in 1972 as they sat down to ponder a solution for their country's devastating 14-year civil war. In fact, failure in Lebanese peace efforts has become almost customary. But after two weeks of consultations in the Saudi Arabian resort of Taif, the parliamentarians -- 33 Christians and 30 Muslims -- were close to agreement on a plan to establish a "government of national reconciliation." It calls for Muslim-Christian power sharing and phased withdrawal of the 40,000 Syrian troops who have been in Lebanon under an Arab League mandate since...