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...have been sifting the evidence in search of some sort of pattern, one of the more disturbing aspects to the case is, in fact, the lack of a real pattern. Only about half of the packages have been mailed to specific individuals; the others have been left outside for curious passersby to find. In 1985 Hugh Scrutton was killed when he stepped out the back door of his RenTech Computer Rental store in Sacramento, California, and picked up a crumpled paper bag lying on the ground...
...years now, Karol Wojtyla -- once actor, then priest, then Archbishop and Cardinal -- has been Pope John Paul II, the Supreme Pontiff, Bishop of Rome, leader of a church of nearly 1 billion souls. "It's curious," an Italian Archbishop once said, "you'd think he had always been Pope." And yet to understand the man and his papacy, one must look not only to the Vatican, from which he issues spiritual guidelines, but also to the almost mystical Poland he holds in his heart. Indeed, though the Pope's corner bedroom on the third floor of the Vatican's Apostolic...
Benn added that he was too curious to wait for the official phone call on December 2 and called before Thanksgiving for the results...
...toned-down definition of their emotional states. Are they play-acting? (Well, we know the actresses are, but are they playing characters exaggerating themselves?) The film's conclusion makes it obvious that they're not pretending, but even before that, we believe in them. Their energy is a curious mixture of childlike hyperactivity and a more adult sexual tension. They may begin a game of chasing each other through the forest and end lying in the grass, embracing each other in their knickers. Similarly, their beloved clay figurines, characters in Juliet's novel-in-progress about a royal family, have...
Besson has a curious fondness for lost girls making their way in a brutal world. In La Femme Nikita his heroine was a drugged-out, teenage murderess- drifter rescued from the guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that...