Word: ahold
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Scholarly cinema fans should rewind their Bergman and Eisenstein and grab ahold of some textual analysis of this year's crop of TSFs. BETTER OFF DEAD (Sack Charles) is truly a watershed TSF, a self-referential picture that turns the genre on its head like nothing since David Smith. Students of pretentious but largely irrelevant allusions remember that David Smith made his sculpture by piecing together already recognizable objects and proved that sculpture needed to be no more than the sum of its pre-formed parts. Likewise, Better Off Dead tosses on the screen a collection of objets trouves from...
...mother, Nickson had done a little acting: two small parts with Tom Selleck on the TV series Magnum P.I. She declines to compare Pecthrobs Selleck and Stallone. She got no screen kisses from Magnum, and as for Rambo, "He used to grease up, so it was hard to get ahold...
...Getting ahold of Burton S. Dreben '49 is like playing a shell game...
...shunned his father's Bible-centered university. While enrolled at the University of Kansas, he sang with rock bands. But he felt "a voice inside me" tugging him back to his father's school. There, he says, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, "God got ahold of my life...
...Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot. "Cassaleria didn't seem to get ahold of the track," said Jockey Darrel McHargue...