Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undue fear. He would describe anal sex as well as drug use. "One of the ways grown-ups protect themselves is to avoid doing these things," he would continue. But, he points out, "notice I am avoiding alarming language and not saying, 'If you do this, you'll be dead in no time...
...here The Sacrifice strips gears and revs into a kind of controlled delirium. It embraces elements of old-dark-house melodramas (a creaking door, a dead phone) and French farce (Alexander sneaking down a ladder for a late- night tryst). Yes, the end of any world, even this desiccated one, can be both spooky and funny. And so is Alexander's unshakable belief, stoked by Otto, that the fate of the planet depends on his "lying with" the ethereal Maria. Is she Eve or Lilith, Mary or Mary Magdalene? Or just a maid who understands that even a dotty master...
Environmentalists were also critical of Sandoz, Switzerland's second largest chemical company. At a meeting called in Basel to discuss the incident, protesters pelted company officials with dead eels. The firm finally admitted that it had underestimated the risk of such an accident and confirmed that Sandoz officials had decided not to act on some recommendations, made five years earlier by an insurance company, to improve warehouse safety. Company spokesmen insisted, however, that Sandoz had broken no laws in storing the chemicals...
...total yardage stood nearly dead even, with Harvard gaining 143 total yards and the Bulldogs...
...respect, managing to stay in character during moments that are otherwise completely implausible. He is closest to redemption during audience-involvement scenes which come as close as anything in the show to real dramatic moments; it is telling, however, that Lantry's attempt to raise the audience from the dead comes to naught...