Word: underworldly
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...guns and a grenade have been handed over. But few expect the grace period will do more than convince a few civilians to come forward?Taiwan's gangsters won't be participating. "Most gang members say there are only two things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last...
...however, her adventures in the criminal underworld are just a pretext. What we come to care most about in writer-director Joshua Marston's film is how his heroine achieves the state promised by his title, Maria Full of Grace. Our emotional investment in her derives primarily from the astonishing performance of Moreno...
...landscape itself, a maze of outcrops, winding valleys and steep-sided natural depressions so baffling that one of Shaw's staff recently spent a night lost in it. And for what's under the ground here, in this part of what cave biologist Arthur Clarke calls "the underworld," there are no maps at all. Cavers tend to "look at their feet and not at the walls, so there could be other art work down there," Clarke says as he adjusts his hard hat before going inside. Years of studying the spiders, beetles, aquatic snails and other invertebrates that shun...
...update of The Frogs, Sondheim and Burt Shevelove?s musical version of Aristophanes originally staged in a swimming pool at Yale in 1974, is that he?s turned it into a play about George W. Bush. In the Greek original, Dionysos, the god of theater, travels to the underworld to choose which of Athens? two late, great playwrights, Aeschylus or Euripides, should return to earth. Shevelove updated it by making the battle between George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare. Lane keeps those playwrights but adds a twist: Dionysos wants to bring back Shaw to help save the nation from...
...reassuringly point out that the bureau's file of 112,500,000 fingerprints is used to identify amnesia victims and mangled corpses as well as such underworld characters as Airbrake Smith and Rooster Face Fannie. But what no tourist will see is the bureau's investigative file covering thousands of ordinary U.S. citizens. It was the existence of those files--important strands in the nation's gigantic net to catch a few disloyal citizens--which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling. It was not that very many people objected to flushing out Communists...