Word: preying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...national promotional tour is planned to excite fans and spread the word about the new movie Scratch, by director Doug Prey. Scratch gives a documentary-style history and contemporary portrait of important and innovative DJs and the now thriving DJ culture founded on their talents...
Impressive as Titus promises to look, however, there always lingers the significant possibility of falling prey to a text that remains clumsy in spite of its gripping plot. Critics have long noted that the characters in Titus are palpably estranged from the audience, despite the horrors the plot wreaks upon them. Bloom wrote, “Everything and everyone on stage is very remote from us,” the steely Titus most of all. If the characters lie outside the audience’s capacity for empathy, no matter how thrilling to the senses it is, it will remain...
...weapons shipment from Iran contradicts Arafat’s claim to want peace. Nonetheless, Arafat is the only visible Palestinian leader who has any degree of legitimacy both with his people and with the West. If Sharon has his way and Arafat is expelled, Israel will fall prey to even greater violence and tumult during the Palestinian power struggle that would follow. And there’s no guarantee that Arafat’s replacement would be any more receptive to peace...
...along. The problem has never been the music, but the pretentious and overly literal lyrics. Both "Jagged Little Pill" and "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" painted a picture of an obsessive ex-girlfriend with a little too much time on her hands. "Under Rug Swept," Morissette's latest release falls prey to the same shortcomings...
...which time foxes, half crazed with fear, have been known to gnaw off a trapped limb. In turn, shooting often results in wounding, after which death can be slow and agonizing - surely no kinder than the quick end inflicted by other animals, which is after all the way most prey die in the wild. Even the government-authorized Burns Report published in June 2000 did not find a case for banning hunting on cruelty grounds when compared to other ways of culling foxes...