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...Dutch movie had no gun; in a Hollywood thriller there must be a gun, and it will go off. The original's ending was misanthropic, claustrophobic -- a fellow in a tight spot with no way out but death. Graff provides a rousingly standard climax, putting the heroine at mortal risk in an old dark house and then letting her triumph. It makes for sturdy melodrama, old-style. You've seen it work a million times. Well, it works again...
...past decade, scientists across a broad range of disciplines have had a change of heart about love. The amount of research expended on the tender passion has never been more intense. Explanations for this rise in interest vary. Some cite the spreading threat of AIDS; with casual sex carrying mortal risks, it seems important to know more about a force that binds couples faithfully together. Others point to the growing number of women scientists and suggest that they may be more willing than their male colleagues to take love seriously. Says Elaine Hatfield, the author of Love, Sex, and Intimacy...
...hero of public policy? She can't be. Mere mortal heroes don't have much staying power in Washington. Superman didn't have to worry about Congress, or about public opinion. Superman wasn't subject to popularity polls. After skirmishes with Members of Congress, Superman could fly off to the North Pole to cool off. He wouldn't have to face Lex Luthor at Washington dinner parties...
...woods outside Belfast, a black British soldier (Forest Whitaker) wheedles a friendship out of Fergus (Stephen Rea), his reluctant IRA captor. Can Fergus kill a man he has grown fond of? And later, in London, can he live a mortal lie even as he falls in love with the soldier's darling Dil (Jaye Davidson)? Dil has a flirtatious manner, a capacious heart, an enigmatic smile and a lode of helpful truisms: "A girl has to have a bit of glamour," "A girl has to draw the line somewhere." These are emblems of traditional femininity, yet Dil is anything...
Kevin became Baby Insane, and a Crip. As such, his totem color was blue, and his mortal enemies, who wore red, were Bloods, and in particular a nearby Bloods subset called the Skyline Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers...