Word: thrillers
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...That goes double for Coraline, and never mind that it's set in rural Oregon. The figures are angular and mostly spindly, like undernourished Europeans after the war; they might be denizens of pestilential Vienna in the 1949 thriller The Third Man. Some of the characters are distinctly European, like Bobolinsky and the theatrical ladies. But even Coraline and the Cat, and certainly Other Mother in her final, spidery metamorphosis, lack the soft lines and winning personalities found in most U.S. animation. Indeed, the girl's "real" environment and her dream-nightmare one are equally remote from the reassuring landscapes...
...story that seemed part financial doctoral thesis and part financial thriller, Markopolos told of his years of toil on the Madoff case, with often "disastrous meetings" with SEC enforcement chiefs. It was in 2005 when Markopolos wrote his now famous and lengthy report detailing Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme and pointing out 29 red flags. He sent it to the SEC, and nothing happened. But when he finally met the SEC's Boston branch chief, Mike Garrity, who had a willingness to "think outside the box," he felt some hope...
...years into his job as a features writer at a South Florida daily newspaper, J.C. Hutchins left the newsroom to follow his dream: writing a novel. Thirteen hundred pages later, Hutchins finished 7th Son, a thriller about human cloning. Then, reality set in: no one would publish it. But Hutchins has found a way around the first-time writer's heartbreak - and he is now part of a technological wave that may carry writers into a next age of publishing...
...Thriller • Broadway stage production of is threatened by John Landis lawsuit against Michael Jackson...
...THRILLER musical on the way; 1,500 Filipino prisoners headed to Broadway...