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...attempt to bring capital punishment back to the Commonwealth, Governor A. Paul Cellucci--now more confused than ever--has proposed a broad bill to make conviction of some 16 categories of murder punishable by death. Together with Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift, Cellucci seems to be relying solely on the horror of isolated incidents to win support for a cause which lacks both practical and ideological grounds...
...read with horror your article about the terminator gene the Monsanto Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long...
...performance that makesJawbreaker more of a horror film thananything else. Courtney is unstable and brash, andthough Liz's death was an accident, another murderat her hands would not be inconceivable. Thehorror movie element is intensified by theperiodic dizzying flashbacks with stop-actionfilming and bizarre lighting that highlights Liz'sbruised body and the discovery of her body by herparents. And of course, the mere setting of highschool alone also makes this film fit the horrorgenre. If it isn't a ghastly retainer (worn byper-"Vylette" Fern) or snobby cheerleaders (one ofwhom is played by Tatyana Ali '02 ), then it'sthe feeling...
...your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality is holy; normality is horror). Podhoretz considered Ginsberg's doctrine to be destructive antinomian nonsense, a species of fraud. He even entertained, but rejected, the idea that Ginsberg might have "willed himself" into homosexuality for the same reason that Robert Lowell converted to Catholicism--for the "material...
...push aside all your anti-horror prejudices, and go see The Faculty. Just don't forget to keep an eye out for anyone who seems just a little bit too thirsty...