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First they flap northward in the spring to their Arctic nesting grounds--the geese, the pelicans, the storks, dozens of species. Then in the fall they wing back home to perhaps Africa or South America, prey to man's and nature's casual malevolence--the hunters, the oil slicks, the raptors--not to mention their own exhaustion...
Then the shooting starts. The lyrical pseudo-documentary style quickly lurches into horror-film mode. The killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They spring out of nowhere, giving their victims (and the audience) a seismic shock. They are monsters of the id--our worst nightmare. Not America's. Humanity...
...planning their social calendar; two other lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon. And then the shooting starts - a replay of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the U.S. The film's lyrical pseudo documentary style now lurches into horror-movie mode. The two killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They are monsters of the id - our worst nightmare. Not America's: humanity...
...like the one used in TiVo, the audience has fractured into hundreds of niches not only able but likely to skip commercials. Advertisers today have to get their butts off the figurative couch and work outside the living room. They have to become hunters adept at tracking the consumer prey. They're investing millions to learn your habits, tastes and routines, when you commute, recreate and flush--and they're using this intelligence to pitch their products at a moment when you can't possibly turn away...
Throughout the course of the game, B.C.’s (29-17, 11-4 Big East) senior first baseman and clean-up hitter Lisa Fischer had fallen prey to Bettinelli’s well-postioned pitches tucked along the plate’s inside corner...