Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teens and twentysomethings in Ban Chua Gan also like to smoke yaba, but they look down on Jacky and Bing and their flagrant, raging addictions. Sure, the cool guys in the neighborhood, guys like Big, with a shaved head, gaunt face and sneering upper lip, drop into Jacky's once in a while to score some drugs. Or they'll buy a couple of tablets from Bing's mother, who deals. But they tell you they're different from Bing and the hard-core users. "For one thing," Big alibis, "Bing hasn't left the slum neighborhood in a year...
...root through piles of festering garbage. The teens and twenty-somethings in these parts of the slum also like to smoke yaba, but they look down upon Jacky and Bing and their flagrant, raging addictions. Sure, the cool guys in the neighborhood, guys like Big, with a shaved head, gaunt face and sneering upper lip, drop into Jacky's once in a while to score some drugs. Or they'll buy a couple of tablets from Bing's mother, who deals. But they tell you they're different from Bing and the hard-core users. "For one thing," Big alibies...
...security means a tiny cell in Gaborone Central Prison, where the gaunt, 50-year-old blonde says she is at peace and where she awaits death by hanging for the 1996 murder of Maria "Ria" Wolmarans, one of her closest friends. In the year after the killing, Bosch married Wolmarans' widower-Marthinus, known as Tienie-with whom she had been having a passionate affair since shortly after her own husband's death in a 1995 auto accident. Barring a presidential decree of clemency, Bosch-who still maintains she is innocent-would be the first white woman to be executed...
Their exhaustive efforts ultimately parallel the psychological journey of Peter, who disappears behind a wild thatch of hair while wasting away into a gaunt shell of his former self...
...wants to typecast herself as eye candy, she'd better be careful: while on 35 in human years, she is already in her late forties in anorexic years. I can only assume that she was attracted by the same thing that convinced Max von Sydow to play Leland Gaunt in Needful Things, or Shirley MacLane to play Aurora Winters in Terms of Endearment: the chance to create a character of pure evil. Unfortunately, character isn't something this film is very good at. Fraser and Hurley come on mugging like criminals, caricaturing their parts instead of playing them...