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While the characters are shallow, everything else reeks of over-kill. The sex scenes are unnecessarily explicit, and Schrader revels in giving us the gamut on perversion from bestiality and incest to kink and sado-masochism. Schrader also isn't much interested in generating suspense. When Irena suddenly wanders through a surreal Cajun bayou, the audience is too confused to be worried. Occasionally Schrader resorts to the cheap device of startling the viewer--something appears suddenly or moves when it shouldn't. All in all, Cat People is as imaginative as coitus interruptus--and about as subtle...
Salt comes from dead, dried-up seas or living ones. It can bubble to the surface as brine or crop out in the form of salt licks and shallow caverns. Below the skin of the earth it lies in white veins, some of them thousands of feet deep. It can be evaporated from salt "pans," boiled down from brine, or mined, as it often is today, from shafts extending half a mile down...
Tomorrow's season-opening trip to Yale, Palm's alma mater, should be comparable to stepping into a pool at the shallow and before forging ahead into deeper waters. The Crimson faced the Elis in a fall scrimmage, and "unless [Yale] has improved dramatically since then, [Harvard] shouldn't have much trouble," Palm says. Columbia will also be in New Haven to face Yale, and Harvard has arranged a scrimmage against the Lions...
...Yale is weak in any place, it is at the blueline, where Bill Thurston, who teams on the first pairing with David Tewksbury, and Bill Nichols, who plays on the second line with Matt Baab, head a shallow crew...
...vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth a little risk," he says. The world of that sentence is upside down: you defend culture, do you not, by locking up the people who try to kill...