Word: tidal
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...turn into a horribly disfigured cannibal that preys on unsuspecting families in a remote New Mexico desert. Based on the Wes Craven 1977 flick, “The Hills Have Eyes” is a mediocre remake of what was originally a mediocre horror film that rides the tidal wave of recent remakes like “House of Wax” and “The Amityville Horror...
...Here’s where students like me start to get righteous. Ulrich, the 300th anniversary university professor, and her fellow Faculty members need to begin by responding to their critics. Throughout this tidal wave of punditry about Summers’ resignation—punditry that has effectively dragged my university through the dirt for two weeks—professors have said zilch about Summers’ managerial failings. They have failed in defending the image of Harvard, allowing critical and inaccurate opinions to run rampant...
...abstraction has its rewards. They include the floating ecstasy of the break-up song Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) ("Now where's the woolen sweater/ You mentioned in the letter?/ Imply/ The other guy") and the partial fingerprints of Joy Division and R.E.M. on Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood, which, title notwithstanding, offers nuanced anger about the war in you know where...
...coming generation of comics craftsmen needn't toil in the dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...situation in St. Bernard Parish is so desperate. Unlike in New Orleans, which is turning on the lights and water spigots, the 67,000 people who live on the peninsula to the east--mostly white and middle-class homeowners--have nothing at all to go back to. Katrina's tidal surge, with waves of up to 25 ft., was so strong, it moved houses--their concrete foundations still attached--down streets. The parish president, who lost his home like everyone else did, figures there is just one habitable house left out of 25,000 in the entire parish. Even...