Word: teaser
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...John Rutter requiem eases along at a people-finding-their-pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...
...panic on the Fourth of July." So spoke the fictional mayor of Amity Island in the hit movie Jaws. Just in time for the summer blockbuster's 25th anniversary, an increase in shark attacks along the nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer in Melbourne, Fla., who last week nearly lost his foot...
...story's hed - "Poll Finds Delegates Are Conservative" - isn't exactly a teaser, but there's a few shining moments. This of Bush: "In a tribute to his political skills, delegates who described themselves as moderate viewed him as one, too, while self-described conservatives called him conservative." And here's the number of the beast: "Forty-two percent of Mr. Bush's supporters across the nation said they supported him with reservations. Only four percent of the delegates said they felt the same...
...climax is not the end. There is no ending; the whole film is the teaser to a planned trilogy. So Wolverine, searching for his roots, keeps on scratching. Xavier and Magneto speak of battles to come. A muted film ends on a minor chord. Perhaps fans will return for later episodes. But for us nonmutants, X-Men is the movie that took the e-cite-t out of excitement...
Action movies need a jazzy opening scene; it gets a moviegoer's pulse racing with anxiety. So 007 went airborne off a ski slope. Lethal Weapon's Danny Glover sat on a bomb-rigged toilet seat. But until now, no one had set a teaser scene in a Nazi death camp, where gaunt Jews trudge to their doom. A boy, torn from his parents, goes into a seizure, and the camp gates are bent open. Aha! So the inmates are miraculously freed? No. It's not about the 6 million. It's about this...