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...when brute force is called for, she's ready. Early in her latest adventure, Shadow Woman (Random House; 350 pages; $22), a thug traps her in an elevator at a Las Vegas casino. She feigns ineffectuality, cringes, then breaks his leg and gouges an eye. As she starts to leave, he grabs her ankle hard (his grip "tightening like the jaws of an animal"), and she says to him, "Think. If you drag me back in there alone with you and your broken leg, are things going to get better for you, or worse?" Sweet reason prevails, and he lets...
...fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling his effects, including a furry toy bunny he bought for the daughter he's never seen. "Put the bunny back in the box," he whispers with slow righteousness--and he flashes the Stare That Kills. When the thug demurs, Poe brutally dispatches him, and on the way out says, "I told him to put the bunny back in the box." The audience applauds raucously, both at the scene's creepy-comic bravado and as an endorsement of Cage. Welcome, Nic, into the elite of movie-hero superstars...
...Undergraduate Council member Steven J. Mitby '99 found a letter on the door of his Lowell House suite calling him a "jackbooted Nazi thug" four days after he had spoken against a resolution to add "transgendered" to the characteristics named in the non-discriminatory clause of the Council's constitution...
...ultimate responsibility for reshaping the art form we love. Hip-hop used to lift us above the struggles we faced; then it tried to inform us about the struggles we faced; now it's become one of the struggles we face. I used to tell myself that the "thug life" portrayed in the music was just fiction. Now it's incontrovertible fact. We can do better than this. If we don't, we're little more than voyeurs of our own demise...
...letter Mitby received called him a "jackbooted Nazi thug" after he challenged an Undergraduate Council resolution against "transgender" discrimination...