Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUMMER LONG, MALE FIELD CRICKETS CAN BE heard singing love songs to lure willing mates. But female crickets are not the only creatures these songs attract. Researchers reporting in Science magazine say they have found a tiny fly of the Ormia genus that can home in on a singing male as quickly as any lovesick cricket. How do they do it? With a hearing organ that works remarkably like a cricket...
...lure of movie biography is to show the contours in a life of significance. Working from a screenplay written in the late '60s by James Baldwin and Arnold Perl, Lee splays Malcolm's story across a 40-year panorama of Americana (the film cost $34 million, but it looks twice as expensive and expansive). In the mid-'20s, Malcolm Little's parents are threatened by the Ku , Klux Klan. In the '30s he finds both acceptance and isolation in white foster homes and white schools. In the '40s Malcolm (embodied with potent charm by Denzel Washington) is a rakish dude...
These movies embody the lure and liberation of irresponsibility. Their makers know that evil, as a dramatic subject, is no more compelling than the moral ambiguities -- the career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want...
...through this worldwide enterprise. And Aladdin is creating new blood." He is speaking in part as a movie executive; he knows that, where there's a popular Disney cartoon, there will soon be a sound-track album, a best-selling videocassette, a Genie cookie jar, a new ride to lure the customers to the Disney parks. He also knows that cartoon characters, and the folks who animate them, don't get gross profit points in the dozen theatrical rereleases and possible sequels. Last year the studio exhumed its 1961 feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians for theaters and took...
Supporters and opponents of the four referendum questions yesterday launched their last-minute leaflet campaigns, trying to lure the remaining undecided voters...