Word: lurked
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Whiffs of inflation are in the air, and a dead-tired stock market is sending the message that economic troubles lurk. It hardly seems possible that prosperous times will soon fade. Profits are up, and record numbers of Americans are at work. Yet the paradox of a market economy is that stock investors get scorched near the end of a robust expansion, while good times still roar. The reverse is true at the trough of a recession, when times are toughest...
...cloistered in the house only allowed to leave for school, by their oppressive and overprotective parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon, played by James Woods and Kathleen Turner. Woods and Turner are well-chosen to visually represent two parents who neurotically keep their children guarded from the dangers that lurk in the pernicious garden of the suburbs. The outspoken leader of the siblings is Lux Lisbon, played by Kirsten Dunst, the sexually prurient, mischievous sister who seems to negotiate with the outside world for the sisters. As the film progresses, she is seduced by Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett), the high school...
Mentally ill, though, that's another story. "The shadow people," as the psychiatric drama Wonderland (ABC, debuts March 30, 10 p.m. E.T.) calls them, pervade overstressed hospitals and precincts in real life, yet lurk invisible in prime time's institutional dramas. This literate and impeccably executed series, alas, may prove why. From the opening scene of a patients' group session devolving into a shouting match, to the story of a multiple murderer with a Zeus complex, Wonderland all but begs viewers to flip to the comparatively cheery bloodbaths...