Word: banging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies into modernism, with sequences that keep playing in any film lover's imaginary screening room: the three-story family squabble in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); the hall-of- mirrors gunfight in The Lady from Shanghai (1948); the sinuous tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil (1958) with a bang; the magnificent pacifist battle scene in Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff (1966); and the Chinese-box structure of F for Fake (1975). The last title was appropriate, for Welles ended his directorial film career as he began it, with elegant sleight of hand at 24 frames per second...
...world may someday end with a whimper, but evidence is mounting that the dinosaurs went out with a bang. According to the much debated theory proposed by the father-son team Luis and Walter Alvarez in 1980, an asteroid or comet slammed into the earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, spewing so much dust into the atmosphere that sunlight was blocked for months. Temperatures plummeted, plants withered, and many species, including the mighty dinosaurs, perished en masse...
Edwards did not seem to have been daunted. He and others turned toward journalism and Ronald Reagan in an attempt to bang out a cogent conservative philosophy. The philosophy, he says, has won the hearts and minds of American society...
Actually, the magazine is more slap-dash than wham-bang, and the cornucopia has withered under the increasing onslaught of the bacteria of scholarly commitment...
...keep this fever pitch alive, we offer to you at a special discount rate the first What is to be Done? of the season, a wham-bang affair full of reviews and previews, a veritable cornucopia of entertainment ideas...