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...slashers of the last ten years have featured supple amounts of nubile flesh. If that’s all I was after I would just watch “Cherry Falls” or “I Know What You Did Last Summer” or straight-to-video gems like “Frankenfish.”The missing link is all that wonderful psychosexual craziness—that sense of uncanny terror—and most all the creepy feeling that the screen is acting out repressed fears and desires you didn’t know...
...Taoua said she also looked forward to her future peers at the Institute.“I was so impressed by Cambridge when I came [on a visit] in September, and pleased to be working with people who can talk about their work in compelling and succinct terms, getting straight to the point,” she said.Many of the newly appointed fellows were equally enthusiastic.Melina Pappademos, an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut, said in an e-mail that she was honored to be one of the new fellows. “This is as much...
Style Idol: Oscar Wilde gone straight and still just as loathsome My style in three words: Vain. My style in one sentence: Dorian Grey without all the cutesy bullshit...
...weirdness is the drugged-out scene between Karen and a girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland)—enough of the latter for the MPAA to slap the movie with an NC-17 rating. Underneath all that, however, is a simplistic whodunit (was it the loose cannon? The straight arrow? The butler?) without too many character nuances getting in the way. Scenes with the mother of the dead girl, intended to add a more human dimension to the murder, tend toward the maudlin and ill-advised. The central scene of the movie, which is destined for infamy (although...
...fifths human in the Constitution and in that they did not require the Voting Rights Act to have the right to vote." All of which is true. Race is most often, rightly or not, signified physically. While gays have been, and still are in many instances, forced to play straight, they at least had a refuge. It was historically difficult, usually impossible, and often illegal, for a black person to pass as white (even if 15/16ths of his blood was). They had nowhere to hide...