Word: bogeyman
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Halloween II is in Dolby Stereo, and it's a lavish, epic hack'em-up, the Deer Hunter of the horror genre. The Shape, Michael Meyers, has become a mythic Bogeyman, and he's practically indestructible. He's also a one-man charnel-house--there wasn't a drop of blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash...
...spend the two hours is trying to figure out metaphors. No one from paradise is allowed to "go over to the other side" where the "bogeyman" lives. Should the bogeyman cross into civilization, Mr. Atkinson promises to "spear him" in the head, the guts, and other areas. Man name of John Foster Dulles wrote much the same script in his day, but lacked the underwater photography necessary to produce this thriller...
...year's most perverse children's book is Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand in the public eye. His adventures cover oversized pages full of puns ("Hullo, my dreary," "my direling") and bile green anatomy charts that provide a perfect send-up for the child who has ODed on gnomes and faeries...
...monetarist vision of an unfettered economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have a first-class mind," he once said, "but I have no political judgment whatsoever." Thus, despite his powerful influence on Thatcher, he was given the relatively minor Cabinet post of Minister for Industry...
...that kind of help; we have to reject the emotional parsimony of a liberal institutional mentality which confuses demands for a sensually just and loving community with cries for a nursemaid. Instead I think we would have to conclude that there are connections between that old bogeyman, the concentration of wealth and corporate power, and the everyday fragmentation of identities, failure of relationships, and encroachment of new and subtle patterns of domination and decadence in our lives--patterns against which the protest movements of the 'sixties cried out, and against which a "counter-culture" of re-affirmation and resistance...