Word: darkeness
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...enduring urban legend. Rather, a rural one, since the human victims are usually out in the boonies, far from help or, for that matter, from scientists who might investigate and challenge their stories. But isolation is a prime factor in horror stories - the fear of being alone, in the dark, confronted with some mysterious, nefarious force - and that suits the Nome, Alaska, setting of The Fourth Kind, a supposed semidocumentary on an abduction case. It's the fall's very Art-Belliest movie. Also possibly the silliest. (See pictures of movie flying saucers...
...recovering nerd, I am still confronted by my dark, glasses-braces-andunflattering-jeans-wearing past every once in awhile. Those who have gone through the same adjustment during their time here know what I mean. You see that friend you made freshman year, that you never really kept in touch with, and you debate whether to keep your head down and scurry past to avoid the “Wow, you look great!” remarks, or whether to stroll past them just to flaunt your new, hipper self, specifically to get those remarks, while then nonchalantly pretending like...
...have you seen the film yet? I've seen it four times. I really love it. The second half of my book is quite dark - there's a lot of jokes in the first half and not many in the second half - and what Clooney and director Grant Heslov decided to do was make it a much more sweet-natured, slightly batty, feel-good film. It's sort of like Little Miss Sunshine goes...
...Love You" song being played at prisons in Iraq. I'm definitely, definitely not accusing the movie of the thing I accused the media of doing in the book. And in fact, that stuff about Barney being turned into a funny story is the kind of sharp, dark end of the movie. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the whole Barney thing because I think [the U.S. military] deliberately disseminated it to make torture seem funny. I think they saw an opportunity and went with it. That...
...campaign to persuade governments, organizations and individuals to cut carbon emissions 10% in 2010, actually cast her ballot for Johnson's rival, Ken Livingstone, in last year's election. But after Johnson's daring rescue, she told the British daily Guardian, "If you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble, I think Boris would be of more use than...