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...completely self-absorbed, unable to see beyond the experiment at hand. His monster is the product of an inevitable sequence of events: he believes reanimation is possible, and works maniacally until it is achieved. The Frankenstein films have been less successful than Shelley in defining his motive for creating inhuman life. Branagh chooses to make the death of Victor Frankenstein's mother the catalyst for his passion for dark science, necessitating a melodramatic graveside pledge that "no one need ever die again." Eraserhead goes in the opposite extreme, informing the unsuspecting Henry that a baby is expected, and that...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Modern PROMETHEU | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

Whomever Silver intends to be evil, imagery of death and dark forces bear heavily on the set and the plot as well. Emma sees Arthur in a dream as the devil with horns and cloven feet. But Todd emerges the more likely contender, with an irrepressibly destructive influence and inhuman discourse which portray him as some eternal diabolic force. Enigmatically, he informs his family, "I think I died long ago... I'll be here long after you're gone..." while erecting the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex he mysteriously digs up in the back yard of the family mansion...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Pterodactyls Never Manages to Soar | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...fundamental contradiction remains, as was vividly shown on Friday. The U.S. is still coexisting with a regime that it has labeled outrageous, illegal and inhuman...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Tighten the Noose on Haiti's Leaders | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...only aid being delivered is to the vast new camps across Rwanda's borders in Tanzania and Burundi. At the U.N., there is only a vague hope for a cease-fire. "We are at a loss to know what to do," says an Asian delegate. The butchery is "inhuman, ghastly," says U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda David Rawson. Still, says another State Department official, "it's not that we have any plan." There is not likely to be one anytime soon. "We have got to hope that these people will understand that they are brothers," says Rawson. "They cannot kill each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwanda: Kind Words, But Not Much More | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...your face lifted five times," she said. "Do you look younger? No. You look inhuman! You look like a mummy...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Old Age Should Be Embraced, Friedan Says | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

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