Word: preys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vengeance. Winsome Brown as the Marchioness, Merteuil, plays her role with bloodthirsty relish. Her obvious confidence and professionalism enable her to add the strain of comic self-consciousness that brings the play to life. Brown moves in tightening circles around Tom Hopkins as Valmont, the lethargic predator turned prey. Hopkins' Valmont is charming and at times strikingly perverse. On the other hand, the interaction between these two is oddly flattened, and the seductive tension which might have developed between them never quite takes shape...
Besides the obvious discrepancies in talent, the key to the weekend was the Crimson's confidence. It smelled a couple of victories and attacked the weakened prey with aggressiveness...
Nurses at Beth Israel Hospital are also falling prey to the flu-like condition...
Reading International may be yet another victim of the recession, another in an ever-growing list of small shops to fall prey to the mall-ification of the Square, but that may be an oversimplification of the facts...
...world have taken a sad but predictable toll on the country's traditional values. Police estimate there are 50,000 prostitutes in Ho Chi Minh City, more than in 1975. Drug addiction is a growing problem. That in turn is boosting petty crime. Dozens of pickpockets, beggars and touts prey on unsuspecting foreigners in the square in front of city hall, within the gaze of an avuncular statue of Ho Chi Minh. Says a local official: "This is the price we must pay in order to leave our impoverished state...