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...Diamondback story written last fall, Kern said her students were taught to slaughter the rabbits by severing each bunnie's spinal cord. "In many cases, the students had never seen an animal slaughtered...
...into their work with enthusiasm no matter what ridiculous things they are requested to do. With straight faces, Debbie Wasser and Ashley Roundtree calmly strip down to silk negligee and fruit-of-the-looms as they sing the melancholy duet "Heroes." Later, Wasser submits to being beaten with a cord with equal aplomb...
...creates his own imaginary world, a world without values, ideas, or social relevance. For Nabokov, literature is a detective game: The reader tries of solve the word code and enter the imaginary world. Nabokov describes the sensual pleasure he finds in art: a certain tingling feeling in the spinal cord, he says. His cowering pupils are told over and over again that the social, cultural, or intellectual context of a work of art is simply irrelevant...
...shrugs. "The way I see it, it comes down to a basic decision between two directions. One is to really affirm and exploit the artistic side--the side I live in here. But I don't know--that would never sever the connection, never cut the umbilical cord--it would be like never leaving mother. Sometimes I just want to eschew acting--to be a statesman, to reconcile the U.S. and the USSR or something...
...plot was silly, but on its deepest level the movie made sense. I heard someone complain when "the Shape" wrapped that telephone cord around P.J. Soles' throat and squeezed and squeezed that it made no sense, the guy had no motive. As if a man with an adolescent mind needs a motive to kill attractive baby-sitters...