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...those of you wondering about the truth of Chucky's tagline--"Chucky Gets Lucky!"--it is brought to vivid, hilarious life in one of the weirdest, most demented scenes to be found in any American movie in years. And Chucky has one of the best endings of any movie in years...
...book's most powerful asset is its brutal honesty. It is apparent that Verghese hides little or nothing. He is completely honest about the realities of the horrors and problems he describes. A more simple yet vivid portrayal of the habits, methods and thoughts of intravenous drug addicts would be hard to find. Verghese obviously writes from experience. His characterizations of the various addicts whose lives he touches as a doctor of internal medicine are lucid, compelling and endearing. These are obviously real people, and they tell it like it is--from where they get their drugs to how they...
...address a simple-sounding question that stays on the minds of parents: How can we make our kids better students? In a 16-page special report, TIME this week examines how and why certain kids manage to excel. This in-depth package offers parents the latest thinking, illustrated by vivid examples, on how to help their children lead successful and well-balanced lives...
...They are vessels that you walk into," says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from...
...diaries (the narration is spoken by Angela Bassett). If there's a quibble, it's that the re-enactments, done in soft-focus and slow motion, are overused, and one wishes for a fuller description of the slaves' separate culture. Nevertheless, the viewer will come away with a vivid understanding of how slavery flourished in the land of freedom and what costs it imposed...