Word: pulp
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...Finally making explicit the class warfare between the sexy-snooty vampires and their vassals, Rise of the Lycans establishes Lucian as your basic pulp hero: lumpen nobleman, rabble-rouser and messiah. He's part Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...
...survivors try to determine where (and perhaps when) the island has gone. The debut adds a mind-bending twist to the show's time-jumping narrative that I won't spoil, while keeping its head of steam from Season 4. Lost has a pulp streak--the premiere doesn't just use but also conspicuously repeats the line "God help us all!"--yet it's leavened by humor and performances that ground the bizarre events in a plausible humanity. (Especially Jorge Garcia as sweet, afflicted Hurley, the world's unluckiest lottery winner...
...prioritizes speed over energy savings.“The system minimizes delays but raises energy consumption,” the Sunday Times wrote.However, Hölzle’s post on the Google blog argued that the search engine decreases the “reliance on car trips, pulp and paper” because, before the Internet, “answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library.” Hölzle added that “the average car driven for one kilometer (0.6 miles for those in the U.S.) produces...
Ardai, an Edgar and Shamus Award--winning author, is editor and founder of the pulp-fiction publisher Hard Case Crime
...prime by curling inside the legend of the Difficult Star, acquiring an odor for being rowdy and unreliable. And since he wasn't a box-office magnet, why take the chance? Bio stats on the Internet Movie Database synopsize Rourke's '90s: "Turned down Bruce Willis' role in Pulp Fiction ... Filmed a role in [Terrence Malick's] The Thin Red Line that eventually got cut ... Walked off the set of Luck of the Draw when the producers refused to let him include his pet chihuahua in the movie." Instead, Rourke, who had been a serious amateur boxer as a teenager...