Word: caged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sustained look at how the characters relate to one another. The camera spends too much time outside the loft -- watching Julie navigate the subway on her way to a dance class, or Heather at a rap recording session. The show seems less interested in its rats-in-a-cage sociological experiment than in fashioning a Fame-like documentary on Making It in New York. The glimpses we do get of group interaction are -- in the first three episodes, at least -- pretty paltry. Becky has promised Andre that she will go see his rock band perform, but she is too tired...
...KEEP ROOTING FOR AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE. The PBS series is television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice...
Animal experimentation is not the solution to AIDS, or to any other illness afflicting our society. In studies of highly social and intelligent chimpanzees--who have been both crammed two to a cage measuring 22" by 22" and isolated in the semidarkness in barren, soundproof, oven-like chambers at the SEMA laboratory outside Washington, D.C.--the animals infected with the HIV virus have not actually become sick with AIDS...
When renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall visited SEMA, which was receiving about $1.5 million a year in federal funds to conduct AIDS and hepatitis experiments on nonhuman primates, she found one young female who rocked continuously, oblivious of her surroundings, even when removed from her cage...
...ambiguity. He includes obvious symbols of mixed sexuality such as a transvestite and a pair of castrated men, as well as more subtle devices. For example, the viewer is fooled by the darkness into believing that a policeman seated at his desk is actually Claire's black panther in cage...