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...pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does: to act as avatar of the movie audience's delicious vulnerability. Also to reap big bucks for the merchants of low-budget menace who have revamped an honorable film formula...
Hercules finally broached the subject of bodybuilding. He had avoided it until then afraid that it would be like talking to Johnny Unitas. "Oh yeah, Johnny, I throw a football too." Hercules had known something of the joy of pumping, but here was this man (the avatar!), this man who had built a temple to himself and carried it around, an objective correlative of his huge ego. What was it like...
...provide a perfect backdrop to the machinations of Welles's demonic opportunism, and the expressionist camera angles and bizarvesets sets create a disturbing sense of moral disorder in this divided city. Only Welles could turn a simple shot of a cat licking a man's shoe into a unforgettable avatar of terror and corruption...
...Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living, what proof can Frances find that the examined life is any better? Her determination to stare down her own happiness makes Drabble's heroine both amusing and touching, an avatar of all those women in Victorian novels who tried to patch together their own ethical systems during the decline of official morality...
...carried such a clear cosmic message as the recent running of the Kentucky Derby [May 12]. While two horses fought for the lead, a third came up from behind and stole the purse. The two horses intent only on challenging each other for the favorite's position were Avatar and Diabolo. Avatar means a deity. Diabolo means devil. So, while the deity contended with Lucifer, who dashed home first? Foolish Pleasure. Let that be a happy lesson...