Originally intended for a man, the role of Salt went to Jolie, who infuses the super spy with feminine menace.

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Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.

现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想，即女性不会受到伤害,但当然，在这个幻想背后，性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。

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So she begins stalking people who may know more than they've admitted to the police, and these after-hours peregrinations (including a jam session in the company of a leering drummer played by Elisha Cook Jr.) prove the movie's best scenes suffused with menace and shot with tense atmosphere by Elwood Bredell.

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Names of ice yachts from the golden era of ice sailing typically commingled whimsy with menace--and for good reason.

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For years, American policy makers have treated the growing menace of noncompliance with the Biological Weapons Convention with benign neglect.

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