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...film comes to explore. Malkovich's is the performance of a brave oddball genius; he plays himself as an effete, monstrous perv, the perfect centerpiece for a film about the insanity of pretension. First-time director Spike Jonze, a longtime music video artiste, has filmed it with collaborator Lance Acord to underplay the fantastic elements of the storyline and accentuate the dirty realness of the images; the plot is deeply surreal, but the setting is today's world, crazy as it actually...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Insane in the Brain | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

There are many books available for supplementary reading that do not contain "anal eroticism" and "descriptions of prostitutes." Leaving the adjective "erotic" out of it, aren't those who approved these books reaching a bit far when they include poems about pubic hair in English class? (Mrs.) Dana Acord Peterstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...equate all fundamentalists with the oddball types from Bob Jones! (THE REV.) FRED D. ACORD LARRY ALLMON Assistant to the Pastor Montecito Park Union Church Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1966 | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ulcers in Floral Hats | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Oklahoma City, Prohibition Agents Alter Acord and Mel West went to raid a suspected house, found it was outside their jurisdiction. A storm came up. Ten inches of rain fell on Oklahoma. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks. The suspected house floated a quarter-mile, settled inside Agents Acord & West's jurisdiction. They boarded it, seized 700 bottles of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Head | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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