Historically, whenever man or beast's been bombarded with massive amounts of radiation the results have either been gruesome or wholly fantastical (see: any superhero origin story).
Other strong contenders include US director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and French film-maker Barbet Schroeder's thriller L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, or The Beast in the Shadows.
Then Diller declared that he would launch or buy a print companion to the Beast sooner or later, a declaration that looks, in retrospect, like a deliberate bluff with an intended audience of one.
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After nearly 60 years, she might as well be a unicorn or other mythical beast.
Unlike the defenestration of Margaret Thatcher, this saga has never had a stalking horse or a big beast willing to wield the knife.
Investors are no longer feeding the mortgage bond beast, or cutting off demand and thus severely crimping the ability of companies like Countrywide to operate.
Or as another big beast in local government put it, they might be casting it as a public services commission but here's "the starting gun for Local Government Reform at last!"
His task is to kill, or petrify, a ravening sea beast before it dines on Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), and his journey, in the company of Draco (Mads Mikkelsen) and other nerveless warriors, takes him through deserts prowled by giant scorpions.
To the extent that we are all writers in school and work, we are expected to stick close to nonfiction, which may partly explain why children tend to be more comfortable reading across the Dewey divide, not worrying if the beast is a tyrannosaurus or Hoppy Hopparoo.
So she teams up with a game warden (Bill Pullman), a lawman (Brendan Gleeson), and a hairy crocophile (Oliver Platt) to find the beast and slay it or rather, this being part of the eco-friendly horror genre, to trap it alive in the interests of science and ogling.
At 84 inches, this thing is a beast, with at least a dozen or so folks standing comfortably around it to catch a glimpse of the display.
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As expected, the newfangled Mountain Lion operating system touts a number of added features -- some of which bring it even closer in sync with iOS. In this week's issue of our e-magazine, the beast steps out into the spotlight and we offer a word or two (a few thousand, to be exact) in our full-length review of the software.
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But a rarer beast can be observed in late August, when a herd of 100 or so central bankers and economists from around the world gather for the annual symposium of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (see article).
"We are looking at the evolution of the human brain into a multitasking beast, where people don't consume one thing, they consume two or three things at once, " he says.
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