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Although testicular cancer used to be regularly fatal, it is now often curable. Treatment may involve surgery, radiation and/or a combination of drugs, most notably cisplatin, which was first used experimentally only a decade ago. Even in severe cases, more than half the patients are cured. When the disease is detected early, the cure rate is nearly...
...decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors who want to use Ciello to further their careers. "No one understands cops," Ciello screams. "No one understands us except our partners...
...side, the speed, altitude and destination of incoming traffic are recorded. The player is supposed to shepherd 26 planes, while constantly watching to make certain that no two planes collide. He has between 16 and 99 min.to guide all the aircraft to safety. If he makes a fatal mistake, the dreaded word "conflict" flashes on the screen...
After the fatal shots were fired, Bocel Cumes ran to awaken Sister Gonzales and the other nuns. They all returned to Father Rother's sleeping quarters, where they found him lying in a pool of blood...
...Phantom of the Paradise and Home Movies, he displayed an impish, impudent sense of humor that recalls Hitchcock's macabre comedy The Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power of obsessive love. In plot skeleton and flesh tones, De Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political and cinematic fact and fancy...