Halloween — with its emphasis on malevolent creatures, vandalism, death and refined sugar — is a holiday particularly unsuitable to children.
Smaller, more agile creatures had the most refined ability to perceive information in a unit of time, said the researchers writing in the journal Animal Behaviour.
The Joyces, though their manners and modes of dress mark them as creatures of another, perhaps more refined age, are immediately recognizable in their loneliness, their cynicism and their thwarted desire to connect and to feel.
We live in a wilderness of dangerous fats and highly refined carbohydrates, suitable perhaps for some other kind of creature but not for us.
Plus: A redesigned and refined Sophisticated Traveler magazine celebrates a splendor of tulips in the Netherlands and visits with a particularly winsome small creature in Madagascar.
Unlike the motivations of the two girls in Dangerous Creatures, another telling of a real-life lesbian folie à deux, Lizzie and Bridget share a refined and desperate bravery in the face of utter, contemptible evil.
