Word: labyrinth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these are just figures on a video screen, to be avoided or annihilated by this Max on a mission. At least in a video game the player decides who needs to be killed, and what trail to take in the labyrinth. The Max Payne moviegoers are passive hostages on a long ride they've taken so many times before. So gameboys are advised to man their PlayStations this weekend; action-movie fans in search of red meat can wait for the inevitably more graphic DVD version...
...today's young parents, most of whom have never seen a case of paralytic polio, that immunization remains essential in today's global society. Fears and myths about vaccines place our children in peril. Kelly Lacek's story shows how difficult it can be for parents to navigate the labyrinth of conflicting reports in the media. We must work together to solve the mystery of autism while safeguarding one of the most successful public-health initiatives of all time. Renee R. Jenkins, President, American Academy of Pediatrics ELK GROVE VILLAGE...
...deadliest fires in the U.S. broke out at a place called the Beverly Hills Supper Club, a labyrinth of dining rooms, ballrooms, fountains and gardens located on a bluff 5 miles (8 km) south of Cincinnati. Darla McCollister was there. She got married that evening at the gazebo in the garden and then, as her party began to move inside for dinner, a waitress informed her that there was a small fire in the building. It had begun as an electrical fire in the Zebra Room, adjacent to the bride's dressing room. Before the night was out, the flames...
...film fantasy or dread, or is it real? The answer, of course, is that it's a movie, which needs only to create an alternate world, populate it with memorable characters, and be true to its internal logic, however skewed. Kaufman has constructed a most devious puzzle, a labyrinth of an endangered mind. Yet it's one that - thanks in large part to a superb cast, led by Hoffman's unsparing, sympathetic, towering performance - should delight viewers who both work the movie out and surrender to its spell. (If they ever get to see it, that is. At the moment...
Surviving Adolescence Two of the strongest, most poignant films at Cannes deal with young people trying to navigate the labyrinth of adolescence. In most serious international films, especially those from Brazil (Pixote, City of God), the route leads to violence and early death. Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomspon, renounces the lure of melodrama for a neorealistic study of four sons of a single mother in Sao Paolo. Their have ordinary dreams - to become a football star, to become a religious leader, to be something more than a motorcycle courier, to drive a bus - but they...