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...Mood, shmood - Hong Kong movies, always in a hurry, don?t take long to put the horror goods on the table. Consider the first 10 minutes of Lau Hung-chuen?s sublimely titled ?Devil Fetus,? for me one of the exhumed treasures of ITMFG. At an auction, a woman buys a jade vase without realizing there?s a devil inside. That night, her sister holds the vase in her lap and gets, as wonderfully euphemistic Hong Kong subtitles usually put it, ?comfortable.? The devil assumes a sort of protoplasmic human form, enters the sister and impregnates her. Her husband walks...
...election. But the subtitle explains all: ?22 Years of Deliciously Evil Hong Kong Cinema.? The bestial festival, which runs through Thursday the 14th, assembles films famous (Samo Hung?s ?Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind,? Ricky Lau?s ?Mr. Vampire?), infamous (?The Untold Story,? ?Dr. Lamb?) and unfamous (?Devil Fetus,? ?Bio Zombie?) from...
...learned their lesson about the dangers of urban life. With the onset of cool weather, mice have scampered from their bucolic country holes into Lowell House, where their presence has ignited a round of panicked posts to the House e-mail list. While preliminary reports of wildebeest and Tasmanian devil sightings have been unsubstantiated, concerns about the mouse infestation seem valid. How better, for instance, to explain the mysterious lack of food in Lowell dining hall...
...failing to take a more active stance against terrorism Canada is making a “short-term deal with the devil,” according to Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor...
...would be easier for Bush to be patient with the liars in Pyongyang and contemptuous of the liars in Baghdad if he hadn't set himself up as being morally allergic to deals with the devil. But the Administration has long seen distinctions among the evils in its axis. The North Koreans confessed, which implies a willingness to keep talking. Saddam continues to dodge and deny, which to the Bushies implies that only force can work. "North Korea isn't an imminent threat to anyone," says former CIA Director Bob Gates. "They haven't attacked anyone in 50 years." Iraq...