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...quality of scenery and the quality of dialogue seem to be inversely proportional in today's films. Studios spend so much money blowing up computer models of New York City that they shun originality and complexity in their characters. They fear that such risky elements may limit the demographics of their audiences...
Hunters tend to be a little defensive these days. They donate venison to homeless shelters. They shun confrontation with animal rightists--and lobby for laws to prevent activists from harassing them in the woods as they hunt. When hunters bring a buck home from the woods, they are less inclined to tie the carcass on the fender or luggage rack; they hide it under a tarp. The image of idiot hunters fueled by beer and bourbon and blazing away at anything that moves in the forest--sometimes firing from the cabs of pickups--has made many hunters sheepish. They have...
Maybe it was the way her debut album jagged Little Pill gathered a small fan base in the early summer of 1995, building momentum through word-of-mouth until it rocketed to worldwide sales of 28 million. Maybe it was her media savvy--her ability to shun interviews and avoid overexposure, even though her record was promoted by Madonna-helmed Maverick Records...
Life offers such a grim plenitude of fatal accidents, of deaths visited on the undeserving without discernible pattern or purpose, that serious fiction, as opposed to mysteries and thrillers, tends to shun or downplay such events. Writers and readers alike expect stories to make sense, after all, and random tragedies simply don't. So author William Trevor takes something of a risk when he opens his latest novel, Death in Summer (Viking; 214 pages; $23.95), with a woman riding a bicycle along an English country lane being hit and killed...
...During the time when South Africa was under the apartheid regime, American universities in general tended to shun the area," said Robert H. Bates, Eaton professor of the science of government and acting chair of the Committee on African Studies...