Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANGELES--Reprising his role as Snake Plissken from the 1981 cult hit "Escape From New York," Kurt Russell returns to the screen for another admirable portrayal of the moody but principled warrior. But despite Russell's acting excellence, the film as a whole still leaves a little to be desired: you won't be hankering to "escape from the movie theater," but you won't come away with this film on your list of the 10 best summer flicks...
...president's daughter, Utopia, disagrees with her father's policies and rebels against him. After swiping the key to a weapon that would destroy all the world's power sources and send humankind back to the dark ages, she runs away to Los Angeles. The president recruits Snake to penetrate the seedy depths of the world's most lawless city to recover the device. To raise the stakes, the president's thugs inject Plissken with a virus that gives him only a few hours to live. The big question, of course, is whether Plissken can recapture the device and survive...
...scenery and special effects of the ruins of Los Angeles are fabulous and make for some good one-liners. In one scene, Snake and Map To The Stars Eddie (Steve Buscemi) come upon the remains of Disney Land. Eddie points to the park and utters an incisive one-liner: "It's a shame. That thing in Europe really killed...
...Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site", we watch as a sea cucumber (an animal, actually) eats its lunch. Interspersed throughout the episodes are amusing bits of animation like "Stupid Things Not to Do with Animals" (example: "Never wear a poisonous snake as a necktie...
Many researchers believe these same neuronal and hormonal pathways are the basis for the renowned and powerful "placebo effect." Decades of research show that if a patient truly believes a therapy is useful--even if it is a sugar pill or snake oil--that belief has the power to heal. In one classic 1950 study, for instance, pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting. "Most of the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect...