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...endlessly inventive and funny variations on the supernatural theme - e.g. the werewolf changing back to human only if a girl kisses him, "but with a wolf's face it's not gonna be a cakewalk" - add fresh comedic blood to the otherwise wane romantic Vampire genre. Funny, truthful and clever, Vampire Loves is one of the best comix of the year...
...Mary Poppins.” The performers casually took advantage of their feathers to crack out light puns—“right-wing politics” anyone? The Classics Club may have gone overboard with crude sexual humor, but they redeemed themselves with cute and clever literary allusions to “Hamlet” and “The Odyssey.” Indisputably, the performers took advantage of a great script. Not only did they articulately roll their tongues around lengthy rhymes chock full of SAT vocabulary, but they used flamboyant inflection and expression, so that...
...dorky dad and a sarcastic cultural critic. Cultural awareness is not particular to Williams’ character; the film largely uses contemporary societal issues as comic ammunition. Bob’s job at a soda company and his rental of an R.V. make room for characters to voice clever remarks about obesity and gas inefficiency in America, respectively. But the film’s gross-out moments outweigh its incisive ones. In an unnecessarily long sequence of the film, Bob faces the ugly task of fixing the R.V.’s backed-up plumbing system. And he continually cites...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Some of the "clever, innovative, creative and sleek" design featured on the site: a Galya Rosenfeld modular scarf handmade from reclaimed ultrasuede scraps from the upholstery industry, an iXi bike with an oil-free chain and David Ellis speakers made from dried gourds...
...Cancer was declared, malignancies in all parts of the body are still managing to evade the best therapies thrown at them. For some leukemias, survival rates have not budged since the 1970s. To be sure, there are gentler and more sophisticated forms of chemotherapy and radiation, as well as clever new drugs like Gleevec and Herceptin that take better aim at cancerous cells. But those therapies treat all cancer cells as equals. The next generation of treatments, doctors say, needs to recognize and target the root cause of tumors. "It requires a reorientation in people's thinking," says Weinberg...