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...starring in another venture for the silver screen, though he disdains being typecast. "The thing is, once you get any kind of image -- I've gotten countless calls to play a drunk Irish piano player which is, like, not very challenging. I'd much prefer to play an axe murderer...

Author: By Stephen X. Rea, | Title: The Tom Waits Cross-Country Marathon Interview | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...movies are also popular because they shrewdly exploit the narcissism of the past decade: the increasingly limited situations, centering on attractive people with very little on their minds; the emphasis on disfigurement as well as death (the girl preening before a mirror, making herself sexy, only to receive an axe in her face.) The Killers and monsters are as vacuously preoccupied with sex and appearances as their victims, and equally represent the "Me Decade...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...axe fell on the Radcliffe Forum this week when the Board of Trustees voted to cut the entire staff and move its programs to President Horner's jurisdiction...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Now You See It, Now You Don't | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

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