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Ansara tries to hold him at bay with some colored sand and a couple of sticks being tapped together, but ultimately, it falls to Curtis and Strasberg herself to make inroads at stopping him.
We often hear of great moments in 1942's 'Cat People'; most specifically the swimming pool sequence and an almost heart stopping moment involving a scary walk and a bus or we may further be reminded of great scenes of psychological terror in Lewton's other movies, notably 'I walked With a Zombie'(1943) and 'The Body Snatcher' (1945), but we seldom hear of the sense of impending doom and escalating terror evoked during 'Isle of the Dead' which comes to head when we realise that one of the primary characters has been buried alive and it's her consequent insanity blended perfectly with an eruption of repressed superstition that chills the viewer in the final fifteen or so minutes.
the gore is very poor indeed and the casting is incredibly poor with Danny Cannon stopping just short of saying fo'shizzle at the end of every sentence because he's a bad ass gangsta pimp army man.
Perhaps the entire cheerleading team borrowed a time stopping device from the bad plot department and studied choreographed performance arts for 2 years straight.
How else can one explain our "heroine" suddenly stopping and declaring she would find the others, but then abandon her friend and return to a simpering useless twit again.
Stopping Russia Starts in SyriaWASHINGTON, DC – The solution to the crisis in Ukraine lies in part in Syria.
Europe’s political leaders need to recognize that now is the time to facilitate change in Iran by suspending export credit guarantees, stopping EIB financing, and speaking with a united voice.
But those who recognize that humanity won’t succeed in stopping war seek, instead, to contain and “humanize” it.
The coalition partners party institutions may exert massive influence over planned reforms, even to the point of stopping them.
If the Taliban want to find a legitimate place in Afghan society and political life, stopping the assassinations and use of illegal pressure-plate IEDs would send a powerful message.
Stopping the killing and maiming of civilians is becoming essential and urgent in this effort.
Stopping criminal activity is a legitimate government concern.
Governance is about setting priorities, and US foreign policy toward China has too often sought a broad array of goals, without stopping to ask if some objectives might be more important than others.
The reason: a congressman managed to introduce a legal provision that prohibits NASA from stopping the spending until a new budget has been approved.
After all, even stopping the fighting between regime forces and some armed groups – that is, those that associate themselves with the Syrian National Coalition, or are at least willing to coordinate with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the partly Saudi-sponsored Islamic Front – would be a major achievement.
The current approach of building US-led “coalitions of the willing” has not only failed; it has also meant that even valid US objectives such as stopping the Islamic State are blocked by geopolitical rivalries.
The Paris agreement offers the world its best hope of slowing and ultimately stopping changes to our climate.
What’s Been Stopping the Left?
Indeed, fortified frontiers are most effective at stopping poor migrants and refugees.
After all, one can also be guilty of complicity in a crime by not stopping it while having both the duty and the power to do so, and when, through one’s inaction, one decisively contributes to the creation of conditions that enable the crime to take place.
Spreading democracy was not the main concern; stopping communism – in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas – was.
Iran, the US, and the EU all share an interest in stopping a war that is causing the Syrian state to collapse – with all of the consequences seen in Iraq since 2003 – and strengthening the forces of Sunni jihadism across the region.
Stopping one catastrophic terrorist event would save the world at least US$1 billion.
By stopping short of dismissing Sanusi outright, Jonathan managed to sidestep the requirement of two-thirds support in the 109-seat Senate.
For Jonathan, stopping Sanusi’s tirades against his administration and the NNPC – at least from the central bank’s bully pulpit – was a critical prerequisite to his reelection campaign.
Nowadays, that means stopping financial markets from behaving badly.
They advocated stopping economic growth, cutting consumption, and making sure people had fewer children.
Preventing bank failures and stopping terrorist attacks are important goals; unless we get serious about addressing climate change, we are likely to have more of both.
Yet Turkey is in the best position by far to demonstrate to Assad that the international community is serious about stopping the killing.
A new initiative called the Green Corps includes 300 forest rangers charged with stopping illegal logging, and the ministry hopes to boost their numbers within a year.
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