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Nevertheless, Oedipal conflict certainly plays a role in the subtext of the film. Hallam’s spooky taunting of his victims, hunters who search for deer with high powered scopes, applies as much to Friedkin’s directorial predecessors as to the trigger-happy “businessmen from Medford” who become Hallam’s first victims: “There’s no reverence in what...
...decision seems to be coming up in the very near future, and meanwhile the Bush administration seems...like it’s only squeezing the trigger tighter,” he said. “Just now is probably the last chance that the international community and the anti-war movement in the United States has to really put the pressure...
...Arab world and the West, fear that the U.S. is glossing over the realities of imposing democracy on a country that is deeply tribal, vengeful and embittered. The vacuum left by a collapse of Saddam's iron-fisted order could ignite power struggles and vendetta killings that could trigger long-term civil strife or even the breakup of the country. There's no democrat in waiting to step in if the dictator departs. Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds would jostle for their share of power. Iraqi exiles would vie for supremacy with those inside the country who resent and mistrust...
Placed against white walls and lit both naturally and artificially, the intense colors trigger a feeling of warmth and provide a visual escape from the dull grays of dirty snow...
...think that the [Bauer Center] is an excellent conception,” said Mervyn J. Turner, senior vice president at Merck Research Laboratories. “By funding it, we’d be providing some seed money to trigger these new areas of fundamental research in the biological sciences...