Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baseball someday. But evolution did not do the same thing for the central nervous system. It was explained to me that if the central nervous system of an animal were to regenerate, the animal would not have the speed and agility it once had, and would thus be easy prey. It is better for the animal to just die. Evolution decided that it's better not even to try." The challenge for medical science in finding a cure is that the body must be made to do what it was not made...
...cast therefore stands up well to the weakened challenges of this movie version, as Emma attempts to maneuver them as carefully as pieces on a chessboard. That part of the entertainment doesn't disappear: we watch Emma think she's doing all right, while actually falling prey to subtler subversions. Only Toni Collette as Harriet Smith mixes far too many portions of foolishness and idiocy with the easily influenced callowness her character demands...
Apple's lyrics have a sad, cloistered feeling to them. In Sullen Girl she sings, "It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion"; and in Carrion she imagines a broken relationship as a corpse lying between two lovers "like the carrion of a murdered prey...
...court's action, which reinterprets the law rather than strikes it down, provoked outrage from victim advocates and some politicians. "Those who repeatedly assault our citizens, terrorize our elderly and prey upon our children must pay a severe price," declared Governor Pete Wilson, who pledged to try to overturn the decision either in the legislature or through another ballot initiative. One possibility: make the law even more rigid and remove the discretion of both prosecutors and judges...
Madonna: Yes, yes, this is certainly something that brings to the surface my longings. In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present. And there is a more normal attitude toward leather play-toys that also makes...