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...pleasant apartment-he offers her a Christmas trip to Rome instead. In the end, of course, he loses the girl, but Brookner's triumph lies in the story's resolution. Torturing his sensibilities, wasting his money, disparaging his friends, Katy nonetheless succeeds in bringing animation back to her prey. As she re-enters the void from which she came, George starts a new life...
...Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak -- stilted language with ( many references to nature ("It was in the moon of the red grass," he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying on like his Wagnerian namesake, giving himself over to romantic brooding, hopeless love, careless violence and long sea voyages...
...story is told as both Felicia and Mr. Hilditch experience it, and these alternating points of view not only enhance suspense but also illuminate character. Felicia does not know that while searching for her lover, she herself has become prey to someone else. As she thinks back to the romantic interlude that caused her current dilemma, she cannot -- or will not -- see how badly used she has been by the father of her unborn child...
...later, Salvi entered the Preterm Health Services Clinic down the street, where he shot and killed receptionist Leanne Nichols and wounded two others. The reaction? Massachusetts Citizens for Life said: "We are absolutely heartsick at the news of the shootings. We are praying for those persons who have fallen prey to the action of an obviously deranged individual. Such acts of violence are completely opposed to everything the pro-life movement believes in and works for." Women Affirming Life proclaimed, simply. "There are radicals in every movement...
...species back to the Northern Rockies, but the eight that made it are hardly roaming free. Late Wednesday, a federal appeals court ordered the wolves locked up until at least Friday, when a judge will consider new pleas from ranchers who fear their cattle and sheep will become prey. Wildlife activists worry that the wolves will not fare well for long in their small, two-by-three-by-four-foot travel crates...