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...Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), likewise offers stylish flashback scenes, overexposed with flashbulb-like bursts of light, and special effects that take us on a Fantastic Voyage--style journey inside pieces of evidence. The setup is similar enough to satisfy CSI fans, but the few variations are missteps, especially the grim performances and the broadly telegraphed sexual tension between leads David Caruso and Kim Delaney. Still, in a show where "acting" consists of wearing a lab coat and staring meaningfully at a rivet or a corpse, these flaws shouldn't hurt the ratings...
...Tomb of the Patriarchs, a massive stone structure built by King Herod 2,000 years ago, is the grim living metaphor for dueling Abrahamisms. Despite God's promise that this land would be his people's one day, Abraham in Genesis makes a point of paying Ephron the Hittite 400 silver shekels for a cave in Hebron to serve as a burial plot. He and Sarah were laid there, and later, Scripture adds, so were Isaac and his wife Rebecca, his grandson Jacob and his first wife Leah. Herod erected a grandiose monument at what hethought was the site...
...presented itself - in war, in love, and, time and again, in his own often inscrutable face. Despite the many years he lived elsewhere - Paris in 1903 and again from 1929 to 1932, Amsterdam from 1937 to 1947, and the United States until his death in 1950 - it is the grim history of Germany itself that informs much of his work. Supremely confident and self-aware, Beckmann intended from an early age to make a mark with his art. His early paintings, such as Young Men at the Seaside, painted in 1905 when the artist was 21, confirmed his own early...
...addict who enjoyed having his erotic acts recorded on video by a technician (Willem Dafoe) who often joined Crane in four-way frolics. As a cut-rate American satyr, Crane was Hugh Hefner without the mansion or the moves. And Paul Schrader's clinical docu-comedy is as grim as an autopsy after an electrocution...
...Jacoby ’99, the Oxfam representative, offered a variety of grim statistics on the matter...