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...could apply to international news - and not just in our imaginations. It's the anticipation of disaster. Moviemakers want to profit from our fears as well as our desires; that's their business. But they stick to fears of a smaller, more intimate kind: the serial killer with a knife, the snakes on a plane. They're reluctant to think about the Big Fear, because that fear is too close to the headlines, and about the current Big Villains, because that means Islamic extremists. In Hollywood today, greed is the handmaiden of timidity. I envision a studio V.P. for marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the War Movies? | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

Friday, August 4, 1:37 a.m.: Officers took a report of an individual who had been approached by an unknown individual with a knife at the Office of the Registrar. The reporting individual said they were approached by the unknown individual, who asked for the time. After they stated that they didn’t know the time, the individual with the knife asked for directions. At this point, the reporting individual noticed the unknown individual moving closer to them and identified in their possession a six inch long knife. At this point, the reporting individual fled the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Log: August 4–August 10 | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...Borroloola's problems due to alcohol continue. Just last month an Aboriginal woman stabbed her elderly partner in the stomach with a bread knife during a drinking session at their home. Such incidents are as common in the Top End as the crunch of green aluminum cans underfoot, and the slowly decaying human beings who have discarded them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Demon Drink | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...before she was to meet her new psychiatrist, Andrea disappeared. Rusty tracked her to the bathroom, where she stared at the mirror, pressing a kitchen knife against her throat, deliberating. "Give me the knife," Rusty demanded. She told him to get out. "Let me do it," she said. He moved toward her, grabbing her arm and prying the knife away. Upon hearing the details from Rusty, psychiatrist Eileen Starbranch wanted Andrea hospitalized again. This time she would be sent to Memorial Spring Shadows Glen, a private center in northwest Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...sessions with Thompson, her secret history began to unfold. She admitted the knife image followed Noah's birth but refused to say who was hurt in the vision. She tried to change the subject. She had been depressed twice in her life--after her dad's heart attack and the "failed relationship" before she met Rusty. How, asked Thompson, would she describe the old Andrea? "A little more outgoing. More cheerful. More helpful. More patient. Not so self-centered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

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