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...gore is minimized, applied selectively and effectively only to establish the grotesque split in the Stepfather's personality. The film opens on a green-lawned, oh-what-a-day suburban street: paper boy, sprinklers, honeydripping Golden Grahams sunrise--the works. Dramatic cut to a steam-filed, murky bathroom in which stands the Stepfather, blood dribbling down his bearded face. The camera follows his bloody hands as he clips his straggly hair, shaves the beard, and pops in some green contacts...
...Fearsome as that count is, it falls short of the tolls taken by the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 (500,000 U.S. deaths) and by polio in the mid-'40s to mid-'50s (360,000 cases with 20,000 deaths). But then again, AIDS is still gathering steam...
...School students, faculty, and staff use the public tunnels to travel underground from building to building. Laundry rooms. Coke machines, and bathrooms dot the yellow cement-brick walls, and the steam pipes far above are barely noticeable. People pass through unconcerned by the strange clicking noise can be heard coming from the pipes at intersections. Decorative flagstones pave the floor in some places...
...offense. "As far as we're concerned, if someone's not supposed to be in a place, it's trespassing, whether it's a student or anyone else," says Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse. Possible arrest is not the only hazard faced by would-be explorers. The steam tunnels themselves can be hazardous...
Even a small break in those lines can be dangerous, says Culhane, a night-shift supervisor of Harvard's utilities plant. "You stay keenly aware while walking through the tunnels and listen," he says. "A 100-pound steam line with a pinhole in it can do your skin a lot of damage...