Word: preying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what? This is at heart a picture about animals doing really smart things. The dilophosaur can inspire dread just by staring at its prey; the raptors by breathing on a window or opening a door. The T. rex goes for broader gestures: tipping over that rickety van, gobbling half of a lawyer, and shaking the other half like a cat with a mouse between its teeth. (And if you miss the book's creepiest scene, where the T. rex curls its tongue around a child hiding inside a waterfall, it's not here because, Spielberg says, "the tongue we made...
...moral and social development so arrested we're afraid to stand up to the [National Rifle Association] even when the prey is helpless children?" she asked. "National security has to be right here at home in our neighborhoods and in our schools...
...state, and half of Miami's tourists are foreigners. City boosters, who do not want Miami listed with current travel-agency pariahs like Egypt and Northern Ireland, announced improved highway signs and street lighting and faster phasing out of specially marked rental-car license plates that say "easy prey" to thugs. After meeting with Governor Lawton Chiles, Sommer decided to forgo his travel advisory. Two suspects were named in Jensen's murder. Her widower Christian seemed glad of this, but noted that in Germany, normally, "when two cars bump, you have to get out." That used to be normal...
...next month, the family-owned shop is slated to go out of business after 32 years of service. Like numerous other small, local stores, it has fallen prey to the recent recession...
...love," she whispers urgently to the infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that he is prey for the scrawniest bully. His gross grandfather (Julien Guiomar) has tried to drown Leo, who can't wait to return the favor...