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Prosecutors today cited the howls of Nicole Brown Simpson's dog to fix the time of the double murder. Neighbors testified that they heard the barking or saw the dog, an Akita named Kato, between 10:15 and 11 p.m. the night of the murders. Eva Stein, Nicole's next-door neighbor, said she was awakened at around 10:15 by the "very loud barking of dogs." Another neighbor, Steven Schwab, said that while walking his dog at about 10:55 pm, he came across the Akita, which had bloody paws. As Schwab headed home, the dog followed...
...troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 90-kg soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a half-kilo canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
...troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 200-lb. soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a 1-lb. canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
...chilling winds of New-foundland may howl outside the St. Vincent orphanage, the setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip like sinister, dark shadows through the looming corridors, creating a world of terror for the young boys entrusted to their churchly protection. The orphanage is a realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation...
...nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...