Word: culprit
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...color-coded groups of students are carelessly presented in the film, but would have more easily emerged as symbolic in a play. The coordinated yells of the supposedly riotous crowd sound more like the choreographed gangs of Bob Fosse than the visceral mobs of Spike Lee.A twist concerning the culprit of the original threats offers an interesting initial shock, but the lack of satisfying explanation renders it irrelevant to the movie’s larger message. A student forms a new discussion group—supposedly a symbol of progress on campus—but reveals he only wants...
...normally involve being violently ill afterwards. So ever since 400 diners at British chef Heston Blumenthal's famed Fat Duck restaurant reported symptoms like nausea and diarrhea in mid-February, food connoisseurs have been keen to know what - or who - to blame. On Thursday, Blumenthal revealed the likely culprit: the highly contagious Norwalk virus, commonly known as norovirus...
...figuring out a way to make soda less a part of our lives. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that the soda industry is finally responding to the critical literature on high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Food writer Michael Pollen calls HFCS the “culprit in the nation’s obesity epidemic,” but the Corn Refiners Association has been airing commercials recently to dispel this myth. (You can find them on YouTube. They’re worth watching.) Either way, switching to a more conscious consumption of sugar is unquestionably...
...youthful yet raspy sound, along with the leaping motion of the chorus, would sound more at home on a Miley Cyrus album. The tune is catchy, but fails to allow Clarkson’s voice to shine through. But sometimes Clarkson’s own voice is the culprit, such as on “Don’t Let Me Stop You,” in which she strains herself trying to match her words to the music, resulting in strange inflections and awkward embellishments. The occasional use of Auto-Tune and other vocal effects on tracks like...
...when the chupacabras was supposedly terrorizing a rural farming community outside the colonial city of Leon, a former government vampire hunter told the local press that the real blood-sucking culprit was a giant vampire bat with a 5-ft wingspan, which he claims to have once caught in the northern mountains of Nicaragua. Bat experts and other vampire hunters insist there's no way a vampire could grow that big, but zoologist Bill Schutt says the hunter could have caught the Vampyrum spectrum, a monstrous carnivorous bat found in Nicaragua. The Vampyrum spectrum is an extremely rare predator with...