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This is a highly melodramatized version of Novelist Jay Anson's allegedly factual bestseller about a nice normal family who moved into a haunted house on Long Island and then found themselves psychologically terrorized by things that go bump in the night. It has become one of the summer's top grossing movies despite the fact that the people who made it seem to have been of two minds about their story. On the one hand, they are tediously documentary about every odd manifestation of the unseen world at work, and the accretion of these minor incidents...
Shocks of a more surreal nature follow. When Willard meets up with a bump-and-grind U.S.O. show in the proverbial middle of nowhere, Coppola creates a haunting spectacle of corrupt American values loose in an alien world. Later, Willard encounters a platoon of spaced-out black G.I.s who are shooting aimlessly into the night without benefit of a commanding officer. "It's the asshole of the world," says one fleeing soldier. Coppola's eerie visions, sculpted out of smoke, fire and darkness, make the words real...
...have things we would rather do than fight Harvard," Preusser adds--the University has met the expanding city and it's at the points they bump into each other that most of the tension can be seen. "All fall, it was one shock after another," Preusser says, counting down a long litany of complaints to back up her claim...
Fajtova sees her job as crucial this spring as the AIAW debates whether to cut Division I down to nine teams, a move that would bump the Crimson women down to Division II. "We'll lobby all of the coaches who will be voting on it this spring at Middlebury," Fajtova says...
Despite the best-programmed efforts of convention planners, association executives, sergeants at arms, hotel officials, headwaiters, maintenance men and the army of other major and minor domos needed to conduct a convention, things do go bump in the night. And the morning, and the afternoon. In 1975 the American Bankers Association had planned to introduce its new board of directors on the revolving stage at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Each member was to be moved under the spotlight as the stage turned, but the power failed. When the board members were asked to walk around the stage...