Word: beasting
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...Appropriately, The Elephant Vanishes is a difficult beast to describe. Based on three short stories from the author's 1993 English-language collection of that name, the production is set in Tokyo and performed in Japanese with English (or, in Paris, French) supertitles. It concerns a kitchen-equipment salesman obsessed with the disappearance of an elephant from the local zoo, a young couple who deal with an attack of predawn munchies by robbing an all-night McDonald's, and a housewife who hasn't slept in 17 days...
...AIDS. Here each moment seems to be of an expanded worth, as is the moment that his stark woodcut portrait squelched into the paper-pulp he chose as medium and soaked up the blackness of intention. As in “I won’t be no beast of burden” (Avery, woodcut 1999), in the instantaneity of the print is suspended an infinite expression of stillness, sympathy and strength...
...bounced violently. No, this was no easier way to get home; Dartboard’s fears of an evening bike ride down Garden Street were replaced with visions of his turquoise beauty jarring loose from its perilous mount and being crushed under the wheels of a crimson and white beast...
Though the temptation to drown one’s sorrows in Beast has probably hit many a man in depression at one time or another, it was Robbins’ next actions that really propel the saying, “taking one for the team,” to new heights...
...Alley?people who happen to have preternatural prowess in martial arts. You'll find characters to root for (the gentle baker, the mincing tailor, the irascible landlady) and to hiss (the zither-playing assassins, the chorus line of dapper thugs, the mild-looking elderly gent they call The Beast). Chow not only casts himself on the wrong side, as a gangster wannabe, he also takes a supporting role and doesn't grab center screen until a climactic fight that follows his ascent into heaven to beg fight advice from the Buddha. The mouthy star wants to show...