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...Schnackenberg's third book, A Gilded Lapse of Time, is that rare phenomenon: a volume of poetry with universal appeal. Poetry critics will be attracted by its profound and intricate layers of meaning, and the language is beautiful enough to lure those who don't know the difference between Frost and Blake...
...Dracula is the world's oldest man, he is also the first man of the modern sexual revolution, awakening the erotic impulse in young women like flirtatious Lucy (Sadie Frost) and chaste Mina (Winona Ryder). They have known only puppy love; now they will taste wolf lust. And yet Dr. Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins), who would purge Dracula's spirit from their bodies, is working his white magic on the wrong subjects. Dracula is the cursed soul in need of exorcism. He has "come across oceans and time" to find it. And only Mina, the avatar of his dead wife...
...enough egghead commentary. There's also lots of blood and guts and campy overdone sex scenes in the film, most of which involve poor Lucy (Sadie Frost), the character who is ravished by Dracula in some of his less appealing forms. Meanwhile, back at the castle, a bevy of vampire harem girls keep Keanu Reeves, er, too weak to escape. Like Anne Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS...
...personal ambition are watered, even if they were not first here sown. For all its claims of excellence, this place is definitely not excellent in human relationships. Too many of us walk through the Yard each winter with excellent minds while our hearts and souls sense the oncoming frost and are forced into hibernation, later uncannily showing signs of rebirth only as Spring Reading Period rolls around. Harvard's amoral addiction to excellence sends the message that any brilliance, however lopsided or maladjusted, ultimately matters more than the excellence some possess through their honest, if sometimes messy, search for personal...
...that while the poles are bathed in scorching sunlight, the light hits at such a shallow angle that the floors of some craters are permanently in shadow. With no atmosphere to move heat around, the temperature in these spots is far below zero. Any ice that condensed as frost in the craters billions of years ago when water boiled on the planet's surface as it formed would still be around today -- and evidently...