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...mask of death by the story's conclusion. It's a touching performance, but one wonders if an actress of Dunaway's magnitude is required to deliver it. Daniel Blank (David Dukes), the killer who strikes concurrent with her periods of medical crisis, suffers periodic fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...
Although high school and college students frequently prowl on the grounds of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, few know its historical significance. An enormous number of famous people--professors, Massachusetts politicians, authors, artists and the like are buried there, in the nation's first open-space garden cemetery...
...children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...
Last week, during a subcommittee-level bargaining session, Walesa strolled to the gate to bring those outside up to date. Surrounded by bodyguards and a gaggle of photographers and television cameramen, he looked like a U.S. political candidate on the prowl for votes. "Ladies and gentlemen, Lech Walesa," a man with a microphone announced, and the crowd let go with a lusty "hip, hip, hurrah!" Walesa told the crowd that although the government was trying to undermine the workers, "your strike committee is participating fully in your strike, and in your effort for a victory...
...remakes. Dressed to Kill is the most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross...