Word: monster
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Inevitably, the flood of money has left some members of the art world in China unhappy. "Modern art in China has become a monster," says respected collector Guan Yi. "People's attention is no longer focused on the art itself but [on] what kind of return they will get on their investment, like the stock market...
...million Boston paid to Matsuzaka's old team, the Seibu Lions, just for the right to negotiate with him) is the most lucrative deal ever for a player coming out of Japan. That may be a fitting tribute to the All-Star Matsuzaka, who goes by the nickname Kaibutsu (Monster), and whose fan base extends well beyond his own team. As Seibu president Hidekazu Ota put it: "Matsuzaka is not only the Lions' treasure, but also a treasure for all of Japan's fans...
...fellow feeling."I don't want a conviction," Popil says, "I want him declared insane. In an asylum they can study him and try to find out what he is.... There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we'll call him a monster...
...Everyone knows the monster this boy evolved into: Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant psychiatrist who murdered people and ate them. In 2003, the American Film Institute chose his screen incarnation, by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, as the No. 1 villain in Hollywood history. (Clarice Starling, the FBI agent played by Jodie Foster in Silence, was named the top female movie hero. But that was due to either affirmative action or gilt by association.) The AFI also chose Hannibal's description of how his disposed of one of his victims - "I ate his liver with some fava...
...then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking the head home as a trophy for his patroness. This is just target practice for his grand mission: to track down and kill, splendidly, the men who defiled his sister and made him into this sacred monster...