Word: hauntings
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...past 20 years. Yet by one Energy Department estimate, the country needs 1,000 new plants in the next two decades. As Steve Fleishman, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, notes, "The country underinvested in the energy sector in the last decade, and it's coming back to haunt...
...make them feel sexy - a ride in which they could still imagine taking a date. And when Lincoln promotes its Navigator as an "Urban Assault Luxury Vehicle" it's tapping a deep-seated vein of anxiety: The SUV, say researchers, projects aggression, warning off the criminals that researchers insist haunt the subconscious of the SUV driver...
...lives of two kidnapping victims, one black, one white. In A Visitation of Spirits, the teenage Horace Cross attempts to transform himself into a bird to escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan's experience of coming to terms with his own homosexuality in a culture where it was "never talked about...
...that, perhaps, is why Mel Gibson was placed on earth. He is hard pressed here--by family losses, by the unrelieved harshness of this nasty, backwoods war, by the demons that haunt his character. Yet we are never unaware of the actor's fundamental good nature, reflected in Martin's fierce, sweet love of family, the casual ease of his action passages. He is unquestionably a star who can open a picture. Now we will see if he can, as he did in the even more unlikely Braveheart, narrow the distance between the modern audience and far-off history...
...painted of the Texas criminal justice system has little sign of "compassionate conservatism," and some signs of flippant cruelty and injustice. And in 131 stories of mostly poor men and minorities having their lives ended by the state, there might just be another ghost ready to rise up and haunt Bush all summer. While he's at the house, George W. should ask his dad about another political ghoul: Willie Horton. But the younger Bush's version would be an innocent man - and a deliciously handy martyr for Al Gore...