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...takes a man' wife hostage and drives the husband to hang himself. The audience is reminded not to take the villains too seriously and that this is also supposed to be a lot of fun. When we understand that, we are no longer disappointed that this is not a nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, thriller...
...other hand, though, when the Crimson fans weren't celebrating, they were shaking their heads in disgust. Harvard was outscored 50-33 in the second half and allowed New Hampshire's 5-2 senior guard Marcie Lane--a previous 20 percent three-point shooter--to nail six treys and garner 29 points on the night...
...intensity was visible but somewhat shaded in Short Cuts and The Last of the Mohicans. In Blink she lets it rip. Emma Brody, blinded in early childhood, plays the violin in an Irish rock band, and onstage she looks ethereal. Offstage her anger is like an exposed nail; it catches and tears at everyone who brushes against it. As the result of an operation, Emma begins to recover her sight, and curiously that renders her vulnerable. A world of blurs and shadows is scarier to her than the darkness she has known. One of these developing shadows, as it happens...
...murder mystery or Roseanne Connor's most recent family crisis. It is the fate of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the Beverly Hills, California, brothers awaiting a verdict on charges of murdering their parents. "One way or another, every day it comes up in conversation," says Rosalie Mignano, 29, a nail technician at the salon. "I've really come to care about them as people...
...land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...