Word: seriality
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...feeling -- that we all may be no more than a mischance or two away from reading our names in a tabloid headline -- grabby if sometimes almost comically simple life on the screen. In Ruben's The Stepfather, that eponymous figure turns out to be -- his stepchildren guess it! -- a serial killer. In Sleeping with the Enemy, Julia Roberts' character fakes her own death trying to escape the husband from hell...
Hollywood sometimes thinks that once people grow up, they no longer have families; their lives turn into the heroic tracking of other people's demons in an endless action-adventure serial. But movies don't have to be only about the pursuit of a one-armed man. They can also be about chasing the dragon tail of filial responsibility -- isn't that a form of everyday heroism? The Mexican hit Like Water for Chocolate proved that American audiences can respond to stories about love and marriage, food and family. The Joy Luck Club and The Wedding Banquet display this same...
...second villain appears from over another horizon -- that of the future, perhaps. He is Mox Mox, not so much a Western badman as a modern serial killer who likes to burn people. And Garza, the bank robber, is shown to be as shrewd and ruthless as Call in his prime, and much quicker. Ranger or not, Call is really too old for this kind of thing...
Rooney said Harvard has not been the target of any bomb threats recently, and he said police have no reason to suspect that Harvard would be a particularly favored target of the serial bomber...
...just as crucial decisions were being made to arrest suspects in planned bombing attacks on New York City. The following weekend, as Clinton weighed evidence gathered by the FBI and the CIA in his decision to attack Iraq and as Reno assembled a task force to track down a serial bomber, Sessions went to San Francisco to give a speech on health-care fraud...