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...this--repeated shots of his long-nosed profilesomehow aren't quite enough to justify hiscold-heartedness or make it interesting.Eventually, Stephane paws gingerly at regret, butsince we never knew what motivated him in thefirst place, it's not really compelling. Camille'soutrage at his disinterest is something of a trap,since it forces the audience to regard her as therecipient of desire that she has not really wonfrom us--what's really striking is how muchyounger she is than everybody else, and how no onethinks this particularly remarkable. The movie isfilled with wistful talk about discipline andmildly frenzied chamber music...
Mortal Kombat is not the first violent video game -- or even the worst. In Night Trap, a controversial compact-disc game that plays on the Sega system, five scantily clad women are stalked down by bloodthirsty vampires who like to drill holes in their victims' necks and hang them on meat hooks. In both Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, live-action video technology makes the violence that much more realistic...
...Shaped Box -- have an immediate, radio-friendly tang. The latter song is the album's most accessible, powering along at moderate rock speed and conjuring images of emotional entrapment: "I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week . . . I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap." In contrast, many of the Albini pieces sound ravaged, almost ruined; but as with buried treasures, there are rewards for persistence and exploration. If you listen repeatedly to such sonically explosive songs as Serve the Servants and Pennyroyal Tea, the structure of each gradually becomes clear, and melodies surface...
...attempt ran aground when a squadron of police cars, pursuing suspects in a totally unrelated crime, streaked through a site at the precise moment that the Weinsteins had been directed to leave the ransom there. The anxious family was worried that the kidnappers -- who never showed -- had suspected a trap and might retaliate against their victim. Finally, last Monday morning, came the go-ahead for the money drop. As instructed, Weinstein's eldest son Mark dragged two satchels filled with bills in small denominations to the entrance of a park in upper Manhattan, where he handed them to Fermin...
BEHAVIOR: The Sand-Trap Integrity Test...