He began his career in film criticism with a very positive review of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something of Carax's particular vision,
a special feeling of urgency he was demanding from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version of the «smile of speed».
Dr. Oppenheimer
felt a
special sense
of urgency because he was a co-author
of a paper published in Nature last week that greatly raised the confidence that seas could rise some 20 feet in coming centuries should warming be sustained at levels projected from the greenhouse buildup.