The vocals are both weary and desperately authoritative, and the guitars, strung-out but assertive.

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Lance Henriksen does one of his best strung-out baddies as the lab owner, but the picture belongs to the eloquent-eyed Tibetan mastiff who plays Max.

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Or so it seems in these strung-out times.

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And the Cbeebies website is likely to provide an oasis of calm when my three-and-a-half-year-old son - strung out on Christmas e-numbers - becomes too much of a handful.

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EU, strung up a wire fence to keep out would-be migrants.

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Along with millions of other out-of-date and unsecured PCs strung together by the Internet--what Corman calls "the leper colony"--those machines represent a combined mass of computing power responsible for most of the Net's spam e-mails, much of its click fraud, and the vicious "denial of service" attacks that can knock sites offline and even destroy online businesses altogether.

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Lost there, and then bam, you're strung out hanging outside of Best Buy offering a kidney in exchange for a pre-release Blu-ray player.

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Instead, she strung movies loosely together, as if mapping out the lines of tradition, and weather-tested them against a couple of things: authenticity of experience and the proved canon of noncinematic art.

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