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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Romero's artistic glory is his ability to add a further dimension. He gives us our fun and then holds up the mirror so that we can see the blood dripping from our lips. Towards the end of the film, when a militant hippie motorcycle gang invades the shopping mall disrupting our heroes' idyllic existence and attempting to steal merchandise, we root for the zombies to eat them. When this low-life scum begins to dispatch zombies with startling efficiency and even more startling relish, we think "God damn sadists," and then: "Wait a minute--weren't we cheering this...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...marker" price will go up to $20 per bbl., from $14.54 now, bringing the total increase since December, when the price was $12.70, to about 50%. Still unsettled is the question of whether that will be a unified charge or merely a base to which individual OPEC members will add surcharges; such surcharges now bring the average OPEC price to around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Energy Mess | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Biography has always been a demanding discipline. "It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one," said Strachey. A good biographer should combine the skills of the novelist and the detective, and add to them the patience and compassion of the priest. Few people want their shortcomings exposed (biography has added a new terror to death, complained one 18th century writer), and they, or their heirs, often go to considerable trouble to hide them. Somerset Maugham asked his friends to destroy his letters; both Willa Gather and Ernest Hemingway inveighed against posthumous publication of theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Biography Comes of Age | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...success will be determined largely by two key undertakings: >As part of an assault on unemployment, Sri Lanka plans to build five major dams and reservoirs over the next six years. The $1.2 billion project, more than half financed by foreign aid, will employ 225,000 workers and add greatly to electricity generation and farm irrigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Score One for Capitalism | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...always subordinated to the pictorial event. The conversation between Allen and Diane Keaton in the planetarium is saturated with chiaroscuro density which can challenge, graphically, the famous "Aquarium Sequence" in Welles' Lady from Shanghai. The function of darkness and use of galactical phenomena which often dominate the stationary frame, add considerably to the philosophical implications of the Allen-Keaton interchange in this sequence. Although highly sophisticated, the optical effects are not far-fetched; rather, they are subtly interwoven with "critical" points during the conversation and are sustained just enough to intensify the emotional, as well as ideological aspect...

Author: By Vlada Petric, | Title: A Renaissance Of American Film Comedy | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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