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...much an auteur as Hitchcock. His pictures had horror-movie titles--The Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Isle of the Dead, I Walked with a Zombie--but they are really suspense films, achieving their thrills through indirection: a shiver of shadow, say, to quicken the heroine's anxiety. Lewton's monsters needed no special effects, for he created them purely in the imaginations of his audience...
...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...
...Picture Association hailed the suspended one-year jail term meted out in Japan to Yoshihiro Inoue for illegally sharing via the Web the film A Beautiful Mind. The group called it "a judicial milestone not only in Japan, but globally." Remember Barings? Traders around the globe felt a familiar shiver when China Aviation Oil of Singapore disclosed that it had lost $550 million in derivative trading and was near bankruptcy. The firm had wrongly bet - and redoubled - that oil prices would decline. A Sharper Picture The future of high-definition TV (HDTV) got some focus when four Hollywood studios (Universal...
...These cereals are so healthy that after a few bites your body starts to shiver,” joked Rudolf Gautschi, assistant director of residential dining...
...quite unlike the last leader of the Crimson defense, Dante Balestracci ’04, senior Bobby Everett’s name wasn’t born for the headlines. At first glance, it certainly doesn’t seem born to make football players quake and shiver...