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Shyamalan is a poet of grieving. His movies dwell in bruised hearts and work deftly to find stirrings there. At times he surrenders to a few horror-film tropes (an army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...
...been in attics where the cobwebs were like in horror films, sheets and sheets that you had to break down as you moved forward,” he said. “Once, there were stacks of great Civil War books behind them. Normally, I hate spiders, but in cases like that, I don’t mind...
Compounding the horror of Wednesday's terror attack at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the fact that it was not unexpected. Israel has been bracing for new terror strikes ever since its air force last week assassinated the military commander of Hamas in a Gaza air raid that also killed 14 Palestinian civilians. On Tuesday, Israeli security forces had foiled two planned attacks, but a third bomber managed to injure a handful of civilians at a Jerusalem falafel stand. And those forces had been on maximum alert in Jerusalem at the very moment when a bomb planted...
...which includes former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles on its scientific advisory board, tried to name itself “Veritas” when it was founded in 1989. Knowles, however, interceded and convinced the company of the “sensitivity, the horror, the absolute unacceptability” of appropriating the University’s motto. (The story of Vertex and its charismatic CEO Joshua Boger, as told in Barry Werth’s book The Billion Dollar Molecule, illustrates the special problems of making money in the biotech world.) In many other...
...first novel (she's also the author of a memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing - a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill - and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops it. What happens to little girls after they die? They go to heaven - and that's exactly what...