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After a somewhat sluggish first period with many of its players shaking off the flu bug, the Crimson's offense exploded for five goals in the second and third periods...
...heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes of an addict's mind; or else it's a spy story, in which the secret agent is bug powder...
Bugsy could be the name of the film David Cronenberg has woven from remnants of Naked Lunch. Its main character, Bill Lee (Peter Weller), is an exterminator who sees roaches everywhere -- not least because his wife Joan (Judy Davis) has been stealing the bug powder he needs for his job; she cuts the stuff with baby laxative and injects it into her breast. "It's a Kafka high," she says. "You feel like a bug." In his daymares, Bill is visited by beetles -- big ugly things, chatting away through purulent orifices -- that send him on a spy mission into...
...first in Valmont (1989), in which her glossy beauty and Gioconda smile provided the film's finest moments. Raised in Kansas and Southern California, Bening, 33, caught the theater bug in college. The Broadway hit Coastal Disturbances (1987) launched her career, and soon films were beckoning too. Now, after the critical success of The Grifters, she gets the top dramatic scripts...
...noxious bacilli are transmitted through the air, and it is possible to contract the infection in just a few days of exposure. More typically, a person must be in close contact with an ailing patient for over a month to catch the bug. Even then, infection leads to full-fledged disease in only 5% to 10% of cases, at least among those with healthy immune systems...