Word: batting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bat Masterson sprucing up in Dodge City? Gosh, no, this is an urban cowboy on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But the scene could have taken place in almost any American city, east or west of the Pecos. High-stepping city slickers everywhere are discovering that cowboy boots go just as well with a pinstripe suit, a satin disco outfit or designer jeans as they do with a pair of saddle-worn chaps and Levi's. Al Martinez, co-owner of Manhattan's To Boot boutique, has even outfitted an 85-year-old grandmother. Says he: "Sales...
...movement more attractive for younger workers by encouraging greater initiative at local levels. Says Kroll: "We have to get away from the image of the baseball bat, T shirt and tattoo." He says he has "the greatest respect" for George Meany, 84, the autocratic AFL-CIO president, but that "maybe the leadership is not in touch with younger people...
Badham obviously knows that horror movies are only fun when they run the risk of being silly. So his camera tracks all over the place, with insects and spider webs and skeletons in the foreground, and massive, Gothic, bat-like sets or magical, panoramic English cliffs and countrysides in the background. The bulk of the action occurs inbetween, and Badham reaches it by cutting rapidly or tracking or literally walking up to it, camera jiggling subjectively. Very little happens outside the frame, so we rarely worry about what we can't see, only about how vivid and nauseating what...
...action. No matter that he never sees the sunlight--the day is evil and harsh; it is for playing ball and going to school and applying fresh Clearasil after every class. Daylight means exposure. Whereas Dracula haunts the shadows, dissolves into a puff of smoke, a wolf or a bat. And he can hide his hard-on in his cape...
...overt-if a trifle too discreetly so-in making the connection between Dracula's blood lust and other, more conventional forms of eroticism. This time round there is plenty of money to do a handsome production, to hire first-class actors and use sophisticated special effects (the stuffed bat on a wire was always the curse of the genre efforts...