Word: lair
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...turns out, the culprit is Dimna (Kristin A. Jones ’08), who was apparently pushed over the edge by one lost ID card too many. Saddled into the plot is everything from an escape from a lair under Annenberg to a few mixed-up love stories to the recovery of Bob Dylan tickets, and, of course, a happy ending...
...Herbert, who matures from a 90-lb duckling to self-confident, if somewhat inept, adventurer. This relationship feels genuinely warm, and keeps the series from being just a simple parody, even when some of the gags are as funny as when Herbert and Marvin infiltrate the Hooded Ones' lair disguised as interior decorators, complete with foppish 18th century outfits...
...though as an English teacher, not a bar girl. Then she entered the graduate writing program at Manchester University, where she evidently studied a bit too hard. Time doesn't just pass in Sayonara Bar, it "drips on like a festering stalactite." As Watanabe cowers outside a gangster's lair where Mary lies drugged and in peril after one more betrayal, a rat scurries past "with the paws of its offspring dangling from its mouth." But often she gets it right. In a bar full of devil worshippers, Watanabe muses on their devalued idol: "Reduced to a netherworldly C-lister...
...thought there was nothing beneath your feet but miles of forbidden tunnels and Larry Summers’ secret lair. Not if you’re standing in Warren House, which once served as the Cambridge stop on the Underground Railroad...
...casting virtual unknowns, its $80 million budget puts it between Alien vs. Predator and The Incredibles. An ensemble of 100-plus sings and dances through Schumacher's enormous, immaculately designed soundstages. In addition to the roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there's the Phantom's Lair - a dark catacomb where the deformed genius composes on his grand piano to the steady accompaniment of water dripping into a stagnant, green pond. The space, illuminated by hundreds of candles, was so humid that Butler compares it to an enormous microwave. "I wear prosthetics on my face, which melt...