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...tension and coherence The Locusts is beautifully filmed, especially in the scenes where the film goes for a western feel, and Kelley does deliver some striking images. But as in so many debut features, the script attempts to take on too much, sacrificing narrative focus for stylistic flair. What starts out as a younger, less bleak '50s version of After Dark My Sweet quickly turns into a meandering hodgepodge, alternating between generic buddy flick (obligatory scene in which cool guy teaches socially inept guy how to dress and impress the ladies) and violent cowboy soap opera. There's nothing wrong...
...often confuse the words 'lesbian' and 'thespian' so there you are," Pellegrini says, explaining her dramatic flair...
Wintemute also discovered that he had a flair for communicating his findings. An early study, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1987, linked accidental shootings by children to the strong similarity between toy guns and real guns. At a press conference--his first--he displayed side-by-side photographs of real guns and their toy look-alikes. "If you can't tell the difference, how can you expect your kids to tell the difference?" he pointedly asked. The dramatic story and pictures made national news and helped shame manufacturers into taking the toy clones...
...with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition to succeed Lelyveld when he retires in five years is Raines, 54. A gregarious Southerner who has brought new punch to the paper's often bland editorial page, Raines could bring some welcome flair and aggressiveness to the paper's journalism...
...part, Emad ("Dodi") Fayed did not share his father's relentless pursuit of British approbation. From an early age he had a flair for the cosmopolitan, moving comfortably among Egyptian, French, Greek, American and British friends. He was educated at the St. Mark's school in Egypt, the Le Rosey school in Switzerland and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Childhood friends remember him as pleasant and well bred, and touched by loneliness, owing in part to his parents' divorce. Says Zizette Kishk, a family friend from Alexandria: "He was a very shy and quiet boy who had somewhat...