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The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.
(Of course, everything Roberts writes purports to show that Reagan was right and his critics were wrong.)
Ferrigno's article purports to be about Washington state becoming a northern franchise of California, but it reads more like a case of deadline desperation.
All the SAT even purports to measure is likely first-year college grades.
The Getty Conservation Institute in California recently sponsored a virtual-reality recreation of Queen Nefertari's tomb in Egypt, which purports to let cyberexplorers "look at the 3200-year-old wall paintings ...