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...Work is aggravating me,” she wrote in an April 28 entry on the publicly accessible journal, the contents of which have since been taken offline. “I am one shade lighter than homicidal today. I am two snotty e-mails from professors away from bombing the entire Harvard campus...
...abrupt, sullen, illiterate--and he cuts the telephone wires, effectively isolating them. An air of undefined menace begins to steal over the group, especially after Odile, for no explicable reason, yields to Yvan. It's a great scene; he closely studies her by the glow of his cigarette lighter because he has never seen a naked woman before...
...mess. Then he hit upon a cure-all: low carbs. Saltzman went on the Atkins diet at about the same time he helped launch Pure Foods, a specialty retailer based in Beverly Hills, Calif., that sells only products with comparatively few carbohydrates. Today Saltzman is 25 lbs. lighter, and his wallet is weighty. He has 24 employees, up from just four when he started, and will have 40 full-timers by June. "It was a eureka moment for me," Saltzman says of his carb-counting catharsis in October. "I needed to lose weight, and I needed...
...psychologies would push them ever closer to destruction as the play progressed. Chekhov said that if a gun is onstage in the first act, it will go off in the last act; Ibsen is so bent on his characters’ destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction to take place along the path to the final horror...
...just a professional doing my job.” Creasy, though, is the only one who is a real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw...