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...gene splicers have shown no shortage of imagination. Products in the pipeline include chickens that grow faster on less feed, snap peas that stay sweeter longer, bell peppers with fewer seeds and longer shelf life, pineapples that ripen more uniformly, squash and cucumbers that need less water, corn that requires fewer pesticides and herbicides, grains that have more protein, vegetable oils that are lower in saturated fat, coffee beans that have less caffeine, French fries that absorb less cooking oil and kidney beans that don't cause flatulence...
...Stokes' performances never really accentuate the buffoonery of Firestone's Count, so he escapes as less than simply laughable. Scenes change abruptly from dark confessions of love and desire to frivolous and hypocritical jealousy making vital transitions to key jokes difficult. Likewise, halting delivery and slow entrances take the snap out of potential fun. The jokes take too long to develop where a few crisp exchanges would bring the excitement of fresh conflict to life, and the delivery of punchlines is often so ambiguous as to disguise rather than elucidate the speaker's intent...
...reason the murders go undetected is that suffocation, the usual method of these infanticides, is virtually indistinguishable from SIDS on autopsy. As a result, single deaths don't raise much suspicion. Nor should they. But red flags should snap up when several apparently healthy babies die in one family. "Two SIDS deaths is improbable," observes Di Maio. "But three is impossible." Another sign of possible foul play: repeated bids for medical attention for the children before they die. "Often there's a long medical record of these babies being brought barely breathing to hospitals by the parent who says they...
This is sadism with scruples. But in all his movies Seagal snacks on villains as if they were sunflower seeds. In Marked for Death he broke the lead villain's body -- snap! -- over his knee. In Under Siege, by far the snazziest of Seagal's films, he got to smash Tommy Lee Jones' head through a computer screen. Faced with a bunch of thugs in Hard to Kill, he used his fatal grace to dispatch all but the gang leader, then tossed his weapon aside to give the gun-toting goon a sporting chance. Talk about your Zen machismo...
...rational few should not condemn her too quickly. After all, with all Cambridge's loony shoppers shunning the tagged products, we can wait a few days for the inevitable markdown and cheaply snap up all the bunnicidal toiletries our callous little faces could ever need...