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...doubtless) starving artists who bare their souls in the five flicks included in the festival all have particular, frequently opaque, obsessions. Rather than plot or acting, "Krazy Teens USA" makes the best use of its own fascination with the culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times...
...Wrong Trousers" is a half hour long claymation extravaganza. It features an adorable dog named Gromit, his demanding (but ultimately loving) owner Wallace, a pair of Techno-trousers gone astray and an evil penguin with a penchant for diamonds and chicken disguises. The outrageous plot and strikingly compelling characters, along with what any animator will attest to be virtuoso (and visually exciting) motion make "Trousers" much more right than wrong...
Still, Dowds concedes that lack of focus hasled the Cambridge political institution astray."The CCA goes through periods--and this isone--where there isn't any systematic effort forpeople to get together," he says. "Maybe everybodywas busy. I don't quite know...
...profoundly self-destructive. Despite my respect for the church and my contempt for some of the overstimulated moral idiocy of the secular world, I think that in two areas -- 1) contraception and 2) ordination and the role of women -- the church has gone needlessly, dangerously astray. John Paul II, who should be one of the greatest Popes, has settled for a curiously stolid "Here I stand." Strangely unevolved, he seems thus diminished in what should be a triumphant time...
...leading us astray...