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Word: chiller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yarn about the innocent temptress from Biloxi, Miss., and the odd revenge she takes on the man who steals her away. That one is topped by the tale of the fastest Jeep in the world and a deadly race in the Mexican foothills. A graduate student contributes a chiller about a pack of man-eating cats in his home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Whoppers | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience. What starts out as a thin, sinister tale ends as a psychological chiller finely wrought for any season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...hold a guttering candle to Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Exit Laughing | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...enormously skillful political chiller that gave Constantine Costa-Gavras (who has since directed The Confession and State of Siege) his first taste of U.S. box office success. The script is based on the 1963 assassination of Greek pacifist Gregarios Lambrakis. This is a film about government complicity in murder, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. It could never, of course, happen here. Ch. 56, 9 p.m. Color, 2 1/2 hours...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 3/14/1974 | See Source »

...shadow that really lies across Taylor, of course, is that of Gaslight, that old movie chiller in which a woman prone to nervous disorders believes herself to be going mad, both despite and because of the fawning ministrations of her husband and a friend. Director Hutton incorporates most of the clichés of the Gaslight tradition, including squeaking stairs, hysterical phone calls and many looks of lingering menace. Screenwriter Williamson's script, adapted from the Broadway play by Lucille Fletcher (who wrote another classic of the genre, Sorry, Wrong Number, a few decades back), retains all the trappings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gaslight Shadows | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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