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...Other meanings emerge when reading "Blood Song" with a more poetic sense. The two big themes of Eric Drooker's work have always been the individual vs. the state and nature vs. technology. (He even overlays animals on the UPC code of his books.) In "Blood Song," often these themes will overlap as when the young woman flees the police. The chase transforms into an ecstatic dance amid traffic lights, parking meters and pedestrians. Her skeleton becomes visible through her skin, juxtaposing her corporeal self against the unnatural trapping of a metropolis...
...overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes the star?s much-anthologized stool-vs.-sword fight and the not-easily-forgettable sight of Samo?s naked body painted with Chinese characters - he?s become a slab of calligraffiti. After kicking much bony-vampire ass, he gets wise to his cheating wife. Shouting, ?I knew you were having an affair, you bitch!?, he punches...
...Subway collective might have chosen other films in this mood. Ng See-yuen?s 1982 ?Seeding of a Ghost? was a worthily loopy predecessor to ?Devil Fetus.? Wong Chang-yeung?s ?Holy Virgin vs. the Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 has some good points in his op-ed (“Harvard in a Beer Ad World,” Nov. 4). He rightly questions the validity of our newfound environmentalism in regards to kegs vs. bottles and cans, and he writes, justifiably, that drinking to excess should not be the purpose of The Game...
...MUSLIM Vs MUSLIM...