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...instead, Hemenway Gymnasium remains an athletic facility with twisting, shadowy hallways, a dank weight room next to a hissing furnace and smaller-than-regulation-size squash courts. Hemenway makes the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) look cutting edge...
...restraint for their age and weight, or don't install the safety seat correctly. I regularly get letters from readers who are confused about these matters. So when I saw that the safety agency was planning a big push on child-passenger safety in February, I went to its dank parking garage in downtown Washington for a hands-on demonstration. Though it's not rocket science, I learned that it does take some concentration (and exertion) to make the kiddies as secure as possible...
...goes the dainty violence, nonetheless, for reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...
...Similarly, an eclectic mix of cheery students and weary proletarians converge. They brush against one another in dank corridors, share impatient waits for lazy trains and lock in forced, anonymous embrace on packed cars...
...discovers an ugly crime, an unsuspected gift for intellectual detective work and, eventually, a romantic attachment to Washington's character as the two try to ensnare a particularly unpleasant serial killer. The movie doesn't stand up to close, logical parsing. But Noyce's direction is atmospheric in the dank, currently chic manner; his actors spunky and attractive; and the path to the final, rather conventional, revelation is strewn with grotesque and suspenseful difficulties. It's kind of fun--if you have the stomach for its more grisly passages...