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...those performers who appear to be playing for the mirror instead of the camera; nothing interferes with his pleased self-contemplation Harry's boy should have been a mutt, the way his father must once have been,' but Benson plays him like a doggy in a pet shop window, always hoping someone will scratch his tummy. All one can say in his defense is that his director makes a similar choice at every significant turn in the film. Newman does not rage at the dying light; he keeps trying to cuddle up to it −By Richard Schickel
Little seems to slow Gould down, but the discovery of cancer in July 1982 forced him to curtail his hectic pace. Nevertheless, throughout his year-and-a-half bout with cancer, he has continued to teach courses and work on his pet project, studying and cataloguing the characteristics of the Cerion, a Bahamas land snail...
...president addressed most of his pet concerns, such as pre-professionalism among undergraduates and why we shouldn't be so fixated on getting into a Big Name law school. Then he opened up the floor to questions from the group of about 200 students in the dining hall...
...answers lie partly in the master's mistreatment of his apprentices, who were made to work long hours and fed on rotten scraps that the pet cat refused to eat. They also lie partly in the popular tradition of torturing felines, which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...
...Pet Sematary, King (1 last week...