Word: cats
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...senses--taste, smell and sight together. The rest is peculiar fragments: the cropped sides of two green pears, the glimpse of a truncated painting along the top edge and a black-and-white form that, after some peering, resolves itself as part of the head of a cat. Perhaps it is there because Manet loved cats. Or perhaps it is a quotation of the intently gazing cat in Chardin's big picture of dead seafood, The Ray. Or perhaps both...
...pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...
...interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks. "I'm that motherf_____ girl!" When the session concludes, Eve softens. Her dog, Spunky J., a teacup terrier so tiny it's more of a cat than a canine, scrambles into her arms. Eve coos, "She's like a baaaby...
...Branegan: Sharon came out looking like the cat that ate the canary. He was one happy camper. You certainly get the impression that he's not hearing much criticism for his tactics in dealing with the Palestinians, and that he's getting a lot of sympathy for Israel's position that it's being victimized by terrorists...
...plot by making both Tania and Danilov Jewish. They also have a familial connection, especially after Tania's family has been brutally murdered by the Germans. This religious connection brings a depth to the film that is especially needed at the moment it is brought up, when the cat-and-mouse game is a little slow. Tania's heart-wrenching story about how her parents were killed reminds any viewer what this war was all about. Just as the Russian army didnot want to waste rifles on soldiers, the Germans did not want to waste bullets on Jews...