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...chase, being just a few—which were played incessantly at the grungiest of local theaters.The plot of “Planet Terror” involves zombie-producing toxic gas (just go with it) released by renegade military gang led by a gun-totting Bruce Willis, a knife wielding hero and his one-legged Go-Go-Dancing biddy with a machine gun prosthetic (Freddy Rodriguez and Rose McGowan, respectively). Add blood, guts, brains, shooting, and general goopy splattering all around, and the result is, above all, ridiculous. And that’s exactly what makes it so fantastic...

Author: By Aleksandra S Stankovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grindhouse | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...actuality.” Bolaño literalizes his metaphors throughout: masturbatory writing means masturbating with one hand while writing with the other; a duel between Belano and a literary critic requires sabers; a dangerous pimp’s abnormally large penis is paralleled by his abnormally large knife. When García Madero has his first sexual experience with the beautiful María Font, his heartrending description—a distinctly youthful mix of exuberance and confusion—combines action with perception, physical anatomy with clichéd poetry: “Then everything turned into...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wielding Knives and Words: For Bolaño, Both Cut Deep | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...this style is like a slap in the face." If Kafka offers a slap, Keret's stories are more like a rifle-butt blow to the jaw. In one tale, the protagonist spots a woman walking down the street and sees, a second later, "the tip of a knife sticking out of the front of her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surreal Israel. Etgar Keret's stories plumb the strange side of the Holy Land | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

Used to be, the young had to go to a horror film to get that sickly-sweet thrill of knife on neck, chain saw into cranium. Now the violence comes to you, child, in advertising on your TV, computer or bus shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood on the Streets | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...women as another beheaded corpse is found by the side of the road, a note pinned to the chest claiming that the victim was a spy for either the Americans or the Pakistani government. Beheadings are recorded and sold on DVD in the area's bazaars. "It's the knife that terrifies me," says Hafizullah, 40, a local arms smith. "Before they kill you, they sharpen the knife in front of you. They are worse than butchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Talibanistan | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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