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Word: cattleprod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1975-1975
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PAULINE KAEL called it "the cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit the merest twitch of a response...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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