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...much of her time here, Agatha moved back and forth between the Science Center and Holyoke Center, spending hours a day at Au Bon Pain, blending in with the crowds around...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed and Rebecca D. O’brien, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Grad Prepares To Leave Home on the Street | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...Close Encounter,? skeleton fingers grab Samo Hung?s butt; skeleton teeth snack on his ample flesh. (It?s a nightmare, the kind the ITMFG films rarely wake up from.) You?ll need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...grinning, blood-drooling rapist. He attacks her, is tried for the crime and acquitted. Still he desires her, with a white-hot lust that has him emptying a tray of ice cubes in his briefs to stanch the testosterone surge. After the rape, she had shaved her pubis from pain and shame; now shaves his head to become a priest of mad love. Uniformed in Lycra for the Atrocity Olympics, he pursues the tag team of Lily and her pretty social-worker friend with the majestically jerky movements of a Ray Harryhausen monster. Finally he assaults them in a spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...action but into the steaming souls of villain and victim. As Hendrix writes: ?This is a movie that spirals down and down until it passes the point of no return. And then it doesn?t. (The) characters, traumatized by their very existence, run around sweating and crying out their pain, looking for all the world like candles melting down to a wick of pure hurt and hatred.? The receptive moviegoer goes into meltdown too - from feeling appalled to feeling empathy. And that second, human emotion is the scariest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...officer was sent to Au Bon Pain to remove an unwanted party...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

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