Word: crystallizing
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Movies may glamorize mayhem while serving as a fantasy safety valve. A steady diet of megaviolence may coarsen the young psyche--but some films may instruct it. Heathers and Natural Born Killers are crystal-clear satires on psychopathy, and The Basketball Diaries is a mordant portrait of drug addiction. Payback is a grimly synoptic parody of all gangster films. In three weeks, 15 million people have seen The Matrix and not gone berserk. And Carrie 2 is a crappy remake of a 1976 hit that led to no murders...
...kinds of liturgical equipment. The reliquaries were done at the highest pitch of craft, mostly by goldsmiths whose names have not survived. A modern eye is more apt to enjoy the spectacle of the concentrated, disciplined labor that went into building a tiny sarcophagus out of gold and rock crystal to house a brown bit of human tissue that may or may not have been part of St. Vitus, or a supposed rag off the "seamless robe" worn by Christ at his Crucifixion. Seven hundred years ago, of course, it was the relic itself that really counted, that was "precious...
Despite the shortage of details, many pre-frosh and parents expressed hope that the status of female undergraduates at Harvard would now be crystal clear...
...full of greedy, squabbling delegates who are only looking out for themselves and their own systems," while the elected leader of the Republic is powerless to stop them, having been "mired down by baseless accusations of corruption." Lest anyone doubt the meaning of this last line, Lucas made it crystal clear in conversations with Terence Stamp, who plays the hapless Galactic leader. After asking for some clues to his character, Stamp was told, "He's a bit like Clinton." Primary Colors was never this much...
...received a 60-day suspension for his positive drug test in 1995, and he has sounded like a changed man thereafter. He backed up his words with heavy and active charity participation, a sedentary public life and a crystal clean rap sheet. He looked and acted sincere...