Word: killing
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Charles Fournier, a former army sergeant and nursing-home administrator who was accustomed to bossing people around, used to swear he would kill himself before he'd let anyone put him in a nursing home. So he was almost as baffled as his wife was when, after two strokes, he chose last year to live in one. Even this hardened military man couldn't resist a place with 40 birds, 25 rabbits, 12 cats and four dogs living there, noisy kids at an on-site day-care facility and committee meetings to attend to help run the place...
...were swarming around him like bees swarm honey," she says. "They began to beat him, punching him and kicking him. He had his hands in the air, and I didn't see any gun. People were screaming at the police, telling them to stop, that they were going to kill...
...would be sexy to say 'Oh yes, he seemed strange,' or as every newspaper seems to find someone to say 'Oh, he was regular guy, I couldn't believe it.' ... I never expected he would kill anybody but what does that mean?" said Dr. Granstein, Sharpe's research supervisor in the Wellman Laboratory...
...Africa. In the film, courtesy of a watching tourist, one of the sharks is actually seen riding a wave as he moves in to take a huge chomp of the guy's surfboard. But what really confounded the scientists was the other great white seen zeroing in for the kill from the other side. Unbelievably, the surfer survived to tell the story. Apparently great whites do not like the taste of surfboards...
...final volume, Le temps retrouve (Time Regained), is an ideal Proust in pictures. It roams through prewar drawing rooms, attending to whispers of malice and amour. A brilliant man (Marcello Mazzarella, as Marcel) talks to a ravishing woman (Emmanuelle Beart, as Gilberte) of an old wound. "Heartbreak can kill," he says, "but leaves no trace." The roue Charlus (John Malkovich) takes his sexual pleasures at the business end of a whip. These characters are often crushed by the burden of glamour, but the film isn't. It wears its gravity with a buoyant ease, seeing through walls, magically turning statues...