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...pornography begins to get old after a while without anything in the narrative to connect to, so does this violence. The audience is just numb to any more blood or horror...
...pornography begins to get old after a while without anything in the narrative to connect to, so does this violence. The audience is just numb to any more blood or horror...
...most recent addition to the organization’s long list of over-the-top advocacy positions. During the Harvard Square protest, PETA Vice President Dan Mathews and five others (including one undergraduate) frolicked almost completely naked in a bed to make a point (kind of) about the horror of fur. Mathews had called the protest as a hands-on prelude to his scheduled appearance later that afternoon in Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” taught by Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer...
Kingdom Hospital is really, alternately, three different shows. The first and worst is a generically creepy, borderline-camp horror show, with images of rats running across a fetid swamp and undead hands reaching up from the deep. There's a ghoulish narrator--he sounds as if he could be the host of Count Spooky's Nightmare Theater on a UHF station circa 1965--who reads lines like "This is the realm of darkness" and "The ground is uneasy, and old secrets have begun to rise to the surface." The second is a slightly ham-handed satire of corporate medicine, with...
...These 19th century naval disasters are satisfying largely in direct proportion to the suffering of the protagonists, and Riley's agonies are of truly Shackletonian proportions. But there's richness in the narrative too. Skeletons on the Zahara (the Z is a 19th century spelling) is more than a horror story. It's a tale about a man who discovers his own courage in the face of catastrophe, and an instructive fable about cultural contact: Americans and Arabs searching for firm common ground in a wasteland of shifting sands. --By Lev Grossman