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Primary colors and primal emotions, innocently resourceful heroes and comically scary villains--these have always been animation's basics, and Dalmatians (directed by Stephen Herek) remains blessed with the wickedest of all Disney witches, Cruella De Vil. She's as determined as she was in 1961 to have a coat made of puppy-dog skins, still employs variously addled henchmen to work her will and is still thwarted by the combined wit of what appears to be most of the Britain's fauna. For us dog saps, it is especially nice to see cuddlesomely real pooches instead of drawn ones...
Quake The ultimate release after a rough day at work, Quake makes other action games look like kid's play. Your primal battle: obliterate gruesome monsters infesting a surreal dungeon. It's not what you bought the PC for, but it's what you'll be doing anyway. ($45; Id Software...
...years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though she's too polite to scream them...
...most weekdays, the starts and driveway in front of Currier House groan with the collected weight of dozens of Quad residents. The occasion is not the opening of a Broadway show, nor even the Primal Scream, but the mundane wait for the arrival of a shuttle bus. There are shuttles at 9:45, 9:50 and 9:55 a.m., but to make sure you get to class on time, you should probably take the 9:35 a.m. shuttle. Why? Because students waiting for the later shuttles resemble nothing so much as a pack of hungry wolves...
...from that of someone who does not. Stimulation studies using the drug yohimbine have revealed an abnormal firing rate in an area of the brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful for fleeing man-eating tigers and such. But in patients with panic disorder, it appears to kick in at too low a threshold...