After the dust settles, no character witness's testimony will be powerful enough to sway the jury; expect Skilling's big enchilada to soon be cooked.
It is an exquisite impression and much needed reprieve from the mad cackling and feverish, abstruse lines ("people, bones, sand, dust, filth," mutters one character) being spoken by most of the other characters.
Dust is, as another character puts it, "a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself".
In the climactic scene, the mummy returns to the museum; this leads to human sacrifice, sacred scrolls and a guest appearance by the goddess Isis, who turns Karloff's character to dust.
Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace (Faber), describes Black-Power Trinidad; I could picture every character, building, dust road and beat-up car.The first is a joyously subversive romp through the Book of Genesis in general and the story of Noah in particular.
Already tightening his grip on publicity, though, Salinger refused to allow publishers of the collection to depict his characters in dust jacket illustrations, lest readers form preconceived notions of them.
Election time is finally here (go vote), and for some inexplicable reason, it's inspiring a bunch of decades-old comedy characters to dust themselves off and make the rounds on the late-night circuit.
Her poems aren't simply routine retellings of time-worn tales; rather, she picks up the fabulous, familiar characters, dusts them down and hauls them into the present.
To her credit, she acknowledges that there is a bleak side to her reveries: the has-been dance-hall girl wallowing in memory and the true character of the Dust Bowl, which she concedes was "a tragic, horrible time, not a hopeful time".
Clad in black with a stare that could kill buffalo, his domineering performance kicks up a lot of prairie dust that settles on every character, every scene.
