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...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has just been busted for disturbing the affluence of Beverly Hills; a few moments before, some bad guys had shattered decorum and a plate-glass window by heaving him through the latter. Now Axel, who hails from Detroit, where the fuzz's lot is mostly scuzz, looks wonderingly around. "This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life," he murmurs. "This thing's nicer than my apartment." Very politely he requests the arresting officers to pull over if they just happen to spot any movie...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
...kindle customer loyalty by offering some of the personal touches that most big-city institutions have left behind. In the summer and fall, M & T stages daily concerts and fashion shows in a downtown plaza across from its main office. One M & T teller at a drive-up window hands out dog biscuits to customers with pets in their cars. The bank tries to make elderly customers feel at home by serving coffee and doughnuts and providing low-cost checking accounts with reassuring names like Worry Free...
...propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Says Painter Neil Jenney, who uses oversize frames to magnify his intentions as a realist: "Illusionistic painting demands a frame. It functions as a foreground. The frame is 'here,' with you; the illusion is 'there,' in the picture...