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...Japanese invented synthetic blood (sold as Tru Blood [sic], in six-packs). Humans are skeptical that they've really been taken off the menu--antivamp hate crimes abound--but they're also fascinated. There's a subculture of "fangbangers" who crave vampire sex, and in a clever inversion, a brisk trade in "v," vampire blood, which intensifies the senses and acts like extra-strength Viagra...
...From this brisk synopsis, you can tell that Death Race 2000 is far richer than the remake. Both have an attitude; the first one has a vision. George Miller testified that the Bartel film inspired his Mad Max movies: the post-apocalyptic landscape, the valuing of speed over life, the fender-level shots of cars careering toward Armageddon. It also spawned a rip-off video game, called Death Race, supposedly the first of its kind to be banned. Death Race 2000 didn,t slam into any legal walls, but it has a lunatic daring that was a hallmark...
...view is astonishing: the vast Hubbard and Columbia glaciers tumbling into the ocean, the green islands of the Inside Passage, the jagged, snowblown Chugach mountain range. Landfalls are on a different scale. Skagway is a small, ramshackle old gold-rush boomtown made cheerful and shiny for tourists. Juneau, a brisk, up- all-night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit the Red Dog Saloon at twilight, which falls somewhere around midnight, and see the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, a tiny jewel box built in 1894. It is also a place to catch the scent of fear...
...pilgrims included many young priests, monks and nuns, and the event is likely to generate more calls to the religious life. At a World Youth Day "vocations expo," business was brisk. Brother Mark McKeon, director of vocations for the De La Salle order, said the order's recruiting campaign had drawn 12,000 website hits in the past few weeks. "Obviously, a vocation like this is not for everyone," McKeon told the Herald Sun newspaper, "but we have noticed that young people seem to want a cause they can commit...
...Ahhh, America. As Dinock told her joke, I wondered how Hillary Clinton would have reacted if she had been there to hear it. I know how she would have reacted a year ago: with an awkward chill, a brisk Methodist propriety. These days, though, I imagine Clinton would have thrown back her head and guffawed. And maybe said something like "Ain't that the truth." That has been Hillary Clinton's story this year: she has learned how to be at ease with people like Margaret Dinock, and has come to believe that she - and only she - can adequately represent...