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Swinton's asides work along with the rest of the movie to create a noticeable pattern. Each scene becomes similar to a second hand revolving around the face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...
...Chicago Bulls won their third straight N.B.A. championship. In what now seems a pattern after end-of-season professional sports triumphs, celebrations in Chicago turned violent, leaving three dead...
Everywhere, including affluent Europe and the U.S., the pattern is the same: kids run away to escape domineering parents or because they are being physically or sexually abused, or they are kicked out because their parents can't or don't want to take care of them. Some children fall into prostitution through abduction or trickery. Easy prey, they become chattel for the sex merchants. Sasha says Marik was sold to him for a case of vodka, while he found Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into...
...most South Africans delight in the prospect of free elections, they are beginning to sense that the immediate future holds much hardship and that the three years of turmoil following De Klerk's decision to dismantle apartheid and release Mandela is a taste of things to come. "The pattern has already been set," warns Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party. "It is going to be turbulent, no matter who is at the helm...
...Lung tissue swells with fluid, making it hard for the patient to breathe. Despite antibiotics and ventilators, victims can quickly suffocate. Unlike most respiratory illnesses, which tend to strike infants or the elderly, who have immature or weakened immune systems, this one primarily attacks the young and healthy. "The pattern is different than anything I've ever seen," says Dr. Frederick Koster, an infectious-disease specialist at University Hospital in Albuquerque. The latest fatality was a 13-year-old Navajo girl, who collapsed after dancing at a school graduation party at Red Rock State Park outside Gallup. "I will...