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Hiding beneath the bed are the results of Sid's experiments: mutant toys as bizarre as anything seen in a Hollywood film since the human oddities in Tod Browning's 1932 Freaks. Creepiest is Babyhead, a doll's head--its hair plucked, an eye missing--perched on Erector-set legs. The neat trick Toy Story pulls off is to make these creatures first repulsive, then poignant and finally heroic...
...artists who bare their souls in the five flicks included in the festival all have particular, frequently opaque, obsessions. Rather than plot or acting, "Krazy Teens USA" makes the best use of its own fascination with the culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times and with...
Pity the poor younger sibling, who might have been watching Sesame Street had not his big brother or big sister -- who once learned along with Snuffy -- switched to the Power Rangers. The Rangers too shall pass, just as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman and Bartman passed before them...
...teenage years in Barbados listening to calypso and reggae, both of which can be heard gently rocking her songs today. Tricky, son of a Jamaican mother and a "half-white, half-African" father, comes from the British city of Bristol, a multiethnic urban center that inspired him to make "mutant music for a mutant age." His stylistically eclectic CD Maxinquaye is driven by churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into a haunting aria. On Black Steel he employs...
...original HIV/AIDS link presented in 1984 was that HIV, a new mutant retrovirus, causes AIDS by killing CD4+ lympocytes. CD4+ lymphocytes, or helper T-cells, are white blood cells which organize the body's immune system to combat infection. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) incorporated this definition into its database and has used it ever since to diagnose AIDS...