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...Canadian backwater with a young David Cronenberg, who was then near the start of an exemplarily transgressive career writing and directing meta-horror movies (Shivers, Scanners, The Fly, Naked Lunch) about the body as the ultimate toxic agent. The project was the 1977 Rabid, in which Chambers plays Rose, a car-crash victim who undergoes surgery that forces her to feed on human blood; soon she infects most of Toronto. The notion of a blond-angel porn star as the carrier of a fatal disease seemed like misanthropic science-fiction then. Within a few years, the festering of AIDS would...
...after the heart of the underworld issues,” he said, citing the prevalence of steroid use in high school and college athletics. “If they can get to that heart and clean things up...it’s a good thing.” Rose Styron, a resident fellow at the IOP who offers a weekly study group entitled “Art and Politics,” was involved in organizing the event said she considers both Goodwin and Burns longtime friends. Styron hosted Burns at a special study group that preceded the forum...
Some of you might have been traipsing about yesterday with baskets of cute little eggs hanging from your arms, enjoying the day that Jesus Christ rose from the dead after three days in that stone tomb. Or, some of you may have been sorta dead, bloody, and rancid...
...Some aspects of China's glimmers of economic turnaround do seem as though they might offer hope to the country's trading partners. Take car sales, which rose in March for the third straight month, once again making China the largest market for automobiles in the world, ahead of the U.S. Those statistics, you'd think, would bring a smile to the faces of executives at beleaguered American carmaker GM, whose success in China in recent years has been about the only bright spot in its funereal performance...
...feeling is that China can't help other countries in the region," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University. He says that China's trade surplus rose 42% on an annualized basis to a record $19 billion last month, despite the fact that the country's exports are declining at double-digit rates. That's because its imports are dropping even faster, boding ill for China's neighbors like Japan and Korea who rely on the U.S. consumer and now are desperately looking for alternative buyers of their goods...