Word: devours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waste time on the Gala Ball. The council should not focus most of its energy, as some suggest, on social programs. Annual events like Springfest are great if they don't devour all of the council's time. But the council must be more than a glorified dance committee. It would be unfortunate, to say the least, if the council's trend towards increasing legitimacy and relevance was halted in favor of more concerts and formals...
...severe and curiously bland--that never reveals its secrets. That's perfect for Species, since the audience's sympathies are meant to shift uneasily between the determination of a crack search team to keep the creature from reproducing and the desire of Sil to increase and multiply, engulf and devour. So Sil goes cruising L.A. bars. A gorgeous blond who just wants sex shouldn't have trouble getting a date. But Sil is picky: no junkies, no diabetics. And no survivors. Her embrace is crushing; her French kiss is to die from...
...viewer sort through it. By using ambiguous, evocative images he leaves more room for individual interpretation. Best of all, if you were swamped by Kieslowski's acclaimed (and also thematic) Three Colors series: "Blue," "White," and "Red," "The Decalogue" comes in more manageable one-hour bites that you can devour at leisure...
...Hawks Devour Clippers Mookie Blaylock's 35-point effort led the Howks in a come-from behind victory over the Clippers. Page...
Pasolini's insatiable appetite for art, literature, music, film and theory led him to devour the work of Giotto, Verdi, Genet, Marx and Rossellini without discrimination, absorbing their genius and using it as inspiration for his own paintings, poems, novels, and, finally, films. His volatile artistic energy took off in every direction...