Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming out is prerequisite to all non-straight political action, National Coming Out Day is the most opportune moment to posture. By ostensibly contributing to a greater good--namely freedom from having to hide one's affections--all grandstanding, all obscene posters (e.g. "Have you tasted your own menstrual blood? How about starting with your partner's?"), all reductions of complex human identity to the size of a piece of poster-board appear justified...
...about 11:30 p.m., students on the 2nd floor of the building looked out their window and saw St. Pierre lying on the ground in a pool of blood...
...when Minna turns up leaking blood, Essrog finally starts asking questions. Just what were all those errands for? And why would Minna retell a joke instead of fingering his killer in his final moments? Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. In this case, it takes one trenchant wordsmith to know another...
...also puts viewers in touch with director David Fincher's preferred mise-en-scene, which is almost always dark and, more important, damp--with rusty water, gushing blood and other bodily fluids of less determinable origins. It's definitely a style--see his Seven of a few years ago--and it enforces the contrast between the sterilities of his characters' aboveground life and their underground one. Water, even when it's polluted, is the source of life; blood, even when it's carelessly spilled, is the symbol of life being fully lived. To put his point simply: it's better...
...drunken stupor. Doctors say not getting enough sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...