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...vote on Question One would also ban cruel, painful traps that catch an animal by gripping any part of it rather than by confining it whole, as a cage does. Most of the traps that would be banned are steel-jaw and rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...
Diane Keaton was stepping out of Annie Hall fame into a more risque role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar: "She [says] she is insecure about her looks...[But] a listener can endure only a certain amount of this nonsense without contracting an enormous crush on Keaton. She marches sturdily into her sentences, pinafore starched and party shoes shining, then imagines that she hears a growl, stops uncertainly, scolds herself for being silly, collects herself and moves forward, uttering exhortations, and finally collapses, out of breath, on the far side of a not especially fearsome thought. She does not seem dithery...
Solondz evokes the hellishness of Dawn's experiences through the use of killer details. When Dawn develops a crush on the town hunk and lead singer of her brother's band (Eric Mabius), her attempts to dance along to his crooning while sitting on a parked car epitomizes her utter awkwardness. The song written to celebrate the Wiener parents' anniversary is a tribute to suburban mediocrity, and the last shot of the film, which has Dawn singing her school anthem, bewilderedly, along with a busload of her classmates/tormentors, evokes the inevitability of Dawn's niche in the junior high universe...
...will combine video, stereo and Internet access. That may be a visionary strategy--or a clever way to lower expectations for a product that drew mixed reviews at last week's PC Expo in New York City. Herewith, a look at the features Sony hopes will help the machine crush its PC rivals...
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