Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moriarty, who won acclaim in the baseball film Bang the Drum Slowly and captured last season's Tony Award for his portrayal of a homosexual prostitute in Find Your Way Home, is an actor who conceptualizes a role. One can scarcely imagine him on a horse. But he is a spider of infinite guile and smarmy villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation...
...reaction to the self-praise of the Watergate period, such stylish writers as Lewis Lapham and Murray Kempton have lately put down U.S. journalism as not worth the penny that newspapers once cost. The latest lesson comes from Mark Harris, onetime reporter and now a successful novelist (Bang the Drum Slowly), who argues that the press is incapable of contributing to public enlightenment and is thus superfluous...
...target of physical threats, personal insults and professional criticism. He has been sabotaged by assistants, undermined by owners, and harassed by hostile fans, who have literally pursued him and his family to their front door. Early one morning two years ago, the Devines were awakened by a sharp bang: one of their dogs had been shot outside the house. "It's been vulgar, malicious and ugly," Devine told TIME Staff Writer Philip Taubman last week. "It just makes me sick...
...bannisters. At the top of the list is Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...
This is a wistful little period piece about a gang bang. The film makers -and especially the screenwriter, who based his script on real people from his high school days-wax nostalgic for delicate love and ruined innocence. These commodities were evidently to be found right after World War II down in rural Georgia, where some kids on the way to being good ole boys conduct puberty rites by jumping on the acquiescent body of Billie (Joan Goodfellow). Acquiescent, but not responsive. As the fellows wriggle and writhe, Billie lies there, face turned away, absently tossing pebbles into the swamp...