Word: criss-cross
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...That's a trend being repeated across Europe, according to anecdotal evidence from doctors. Each month, the brothers Viel criss-cross Europe to work at clinics in Norway, Italy and Ireland. Corporación Dermoestetica, a Spanish group with 32 centers in Spain, this year will open clinics in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. "There is no doubt that cosmetic surgery is growing in popularity," says Giulio Injianni, secretary of the German Association of Plastic Surgeons. "People are more confident about this kind of medicine because of media exposure." He says his own patient load has doubled in the past five...
...never really worked. I'll never forget the look my girls gave me when I proudly presented them with their first Hot Wheels Criss-Cross Crash Set. It was probably the same look I gave them when they took a perfectly good set of wooden building blocks and used them to make a day-care center rather than, say, a castle or a fort or a killer-gladiator death-match megahurt arena. Needless to say, I have yet to follow up with the awesome Hot Wheels Crashers 2 Backwoods Bomb Truck. I mean, why set myself up for that kind...
Unquestionably, the room focuses on the pool table, but the overall lounge motif enhances the atmosphere. A pool hall lamp hangs down over the table, and strings of beer lights criss-cross the ceiling. Worn, olive-colored, leather couches rim the room, making the wait for table time pass in leisurely comfort. The chairs, acquired locally in Jamaica Plain, lend panache to the establishment. The seventies film posters, traffic signs and other bric-a-brac coordinate superbly with the lounge theme...
...captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
...makers of the "The Frighteners" are apparently that breed of intrepid, cost-cutting pioneers who have decided that the story should be the first to go in trimming the fat from bloated production budgets. So many weak little plot lines criss-cross and entangle as surely as extension cords that we wish that one of Bannister's friends, a refugee from the 70's, would appear so that we could grab his ample lapels and shake some sense into the movie...