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...audience is warned before the film starts, this is the sick and twisted show, not the artsy-fartsy family show producers Spike and Mike also put together. At first, the warning seems unnecessary; the festival begins with relatively tame selections such as "No Neck Joe," starring a little boy with (you guessed it) no neck, and "Brian's Brain," about a boy trying to live without any flesh covering his frontal lobes...
Rabies is harder to spot than many people think; its carriers do not always appear to be crazed and menacing. In fact, they may seem tame or merely sick, inviting kindly passersby to make the potentially fatal error of coming to their aid. A bite or scratch is not absolutely necessary: two victims have picked up rabies in caves from breathing air contaminated by infected bats...
...violin isn't the only out-of-the-ordinary instrument that Cop Shoot Cop can tame. "$10 Bill" gets all of its beat from a militaristic snare drum, "Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)" features a piano trawling through what this band might call a ballad...
...supposed to tame these warlords enough to make possible the formation of some sort of national government. The alternatives are grim: a kind of permanent U.N. protectorate over Somalia, as in Cyprus, where U.N. troops still patrol almost 30 years after going in to preserve a truce; or Somalia's relapse into chaos, anarchy, famine and mass death. Says Patrick Vercammen, the U.N. humanitarian official in the town of Baidoa: "The Americans could have done 10 times more than they have done. Fifty times. They thump on their chests, but the biggest part...
...Ancient Eight title, and as of yet they haven't disappointed any one. Harvard comes into the match sporting a 2-8 record overall, 1-1 in the Ivies. Despite recent turmoil involving player discontent over Coach Gordan Graham, the Crimson has righted itself and is prepared to tame the tennis Tigers...