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...sadistic, systematic corruption in the municipal government, the police department and the medical establishment of 1920s Los Angeles - that has the novelty of being virtually unknown today. The script, by TV writer-producer J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jeremiah), juggles elements of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, The Snake Pit and any number of serial-killer thrillers. But at its center are the heartache and heroic resolve of a woman who has lost the person she loves most and is determined to find him, dead or alive, against all obstacles the authorities place in her way. In that sense...
...score their due fortitude. In the final minute of the overture, when the strings should be a band of sprinting hunters, they were instead a flock of pigeons flying languidly overhead. The absurd onstage pantomime that accompanied the music did not help matters, either.The singers, like the pit, also suffered from want of robustness and intensity. In a season-opener—and with an opera that has not been performed in the Boston area for 25 years—the performers should have been drunk from the first-night excitement. But most of them merely seemed hung-over.Daniel Snyder...
Further clicks reveal a bound-and-gagged police officer ("Palin-ized!") a lipsticked pit bull and a Miss Wasilla sash whose logo changes to Queen Palin and a flat screen monitor for stock updates: teen pregnancy up, ice caps down, wolves down, parody websites...
...held the hen upside down by her legs, as he attempted to break her neck. He then dropped the bird onto the floor … She struggled frantically – her wings flapping violently as he stood on her. Then the worker kicked her into the [manure] pit. I saw her struggle briefly in manure before sinking in.” Gemperle Enterprises has so far donated $216,288 to oppose Prop...
...observers disputed Kibaki's victory, and a commission looking into the vote recently determined that Kenya would never know if Odinga or Kibaki truly won. In his writings, Corsi has sought to link the Luos - the tribe of Odinga, as well as Obama's ancestors - with Muslims and to pit both of them against Kikuyus, the tribe of Kibaki...