Word: tracts
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...awkward bangs and dye-job are more memorable than her portrayal of pseudo-femme fatale Anne Stanton; as her supposedly honorable brother, Mark Ruffalo’s limp presence seems equally superfluous to the central plot. BOTTOM LINE: The filmmakers do an excellent job of editing down the epic tract into a manageable two hours, while still adding a richness of visual detail on Southern life and politics. But Penn Warren’s sweeping prose on universal themes and regional history does not translate into lethargic voiceovers, especially not from the distinctly un-Southern and pouty mouth of Jude...
...coli 0157 is a particularly nasty strain of the E. coli that lives and thrives in our digestive tract. Animals such as cows tolerate 0157 far better than people, and often shed the bacteria in their feces. The bacteria can then infect crops such as lettuce, spinach, onions, or even apples when contaminated manure is used as fertilizer, or when contaminated water is used to irrigate fields. Most recently, E. coli 0157 found in bagged salads packaged by Dole sickened over two dozen people...
...Cardiologists are performing many more angiograms and other invasive tests than they did a couple of decades ago. Plastic surgeons are doing more liposuction procedures and partial face-lifts. Gastroenterologists are doing more colonoscopies and endoscopies--snaking a tube in from one end or the other of the digestive tract to take pictures. "Where 15 years ago endoscopy was a rare procedure," says Guidry, "now everybody's expected to have one periodically. There's tons of stuff that just wasn't done before...
...Kokkinos is too passionate a filmmaker to deliver some earnest tract. And in bringing a dislocated dancer back to life, The Book of Revelation is as much about the transforming power of art. It's safe to say that with the film's Australian release this week, along with a screening in the Toronto Film Festival's outr? Visions section, few will be left unmoved by Revelation's sexual sparks and slow-burning philosophical musings-not least the filmmakers. "Everyone who became involved in the film was utterly changed by it," Kokkinos says...
...frustrating experience for the UNIFIL officer, but the Israeli forces are in Jibbayn with good reason. A day later, Israeli commandos advance from Jibbayn to the cliff top village of Biyada, a strategic location overlooking the Mediterranean and a huge tract of territory stretching north up the coastline to Tyre and beyond. The move effectively cuts off the Hizballah fighters dug into the hillside around Naqoura two miles to the south. The Hizballah men are now surrounded and unless they can evade the enclosing Israeli troops and escape to the north, they face a grim but certain fate. But hours...