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Even though the various treatments work slightly differently, they operate on a similar principle: they deliver heat energy to the skin's deeper layers, which essentially damages the layers on top, triggering a healing process that produces newer skin underneath. "You need to basically wound the skin, so you can get a healing response," says Keith Penny, director of research for Rhytec, a firm that makes Portrait PSR, a device that treats wrinkles with plasma...
Even under the best of circumstances, parties can turn awkward. If the guest list consists of mentally unbalanced people in failing or failed marriages, seething with personal and professional jealousy, and the hostess is determined to open every emotional wound in the room, the result is less awkward and more cataclysmic. That, in a nutshell, is Moira Buffini’s “Dinner,” directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08 and produced by Ben M. Poppel ’09, which is playing at the Loeb Ex through...
...them off. Hostel, whose first 40 mins. are a-groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more esoteric issues. Like, what to do with a dangling eyeball that's been yanked from its socket? You might guess: push it back in. But Hostel says: snip it off. (The wound bleeds bisque.) A TIME movie critic in the '70s coined the word "carnography" to describe splatter films that were the violent equivalent of pornography. In Hostel or Saw, the big body-piercing torture scenes are the come shots. Hope the kids like...
...required to serve, according to the website for the Massachusetts Office of Jury Commissioner.Winston said he was asked to report at 8 a.m. to the courthouse in Ayer, Mass.—which is more than 30 miles from Harvard Yard. But he said the cab he wound up taking that morning broke down en route, forcing him to wait several hours for a tow truck to arrive and take him back to Boston.Winston says that he finds the system “ridiculous” because he thinks that students who are summoned for jury duty are often...
Eastwood choreographs his battle scenes with a brutal vividness that matches the most cauterizing moments of Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. A young man tries to keep his guts from spilling through the huge wound in his belly. On the beach, a severed head stares unseeing at the sky. More than one good soldier is mowed down by friendly fire. Staying alive was a matter of the most capricious luck. On the Japanese side, some soldiers wanted to control their own awful destiny: they blew themselves up with hand grenades...