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Scanners, however, contains few of these tantalizing touches and much that's standardized and regressive. The Saxon theater management had the right idea after all. Scanners can be lumped together with cut-rate, ketchup-and-hamburger fare like The Texas Chainsaw Massacres and The Final Conflict because its appeal is so clearly limited by its lack of ambition...

Author: By Scott J. Michaelsen, | Title: A Mutant | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

...spread of "new wave" in its most virulent form, that known as "punk rock." Listeners at Ramones concerts are regularly reported as having gone deaf. Their songs not only advocate "sniffing" glue, which causes brain damage and generally leads to addiction to heroin, but demand sedation, describe chainsaw massacres, and even outline the "blitzkrieg" technique of warfare popularized by the Nazis in World...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...When his wife makes butter, she uses a blender in stead of a churn. "If I were to move to an old-fashioned farm," Perrin writes, "and could bring just one piece of modern machinery with me, I wouldn't hesitate a second. I'd bring my chainsaw. It's noisy, it's dangerous, it pollutes the air-and I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Pastoral | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

THERE is a place in John McPhee's new collection of magazine articles, Pieces of the Frame, where two photographers from New York City go up in the country to cut some firewood. They stop on the way to rent a chainsaw at a place called Paden Rental and, they being artists from New York City, it takes the store's owner a while to get his bearings. "Paden, if that was his name," McPhee writes, "looked from one customer to another with an expression that seemed to suggest that this energy crisis had started some extremely novel trends...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Reassuring World | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

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