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...bile. It is a troubling, idiosyncratic and finally unsuccessful film-troubling not for the feelings of horror it intermittently tries to conjure up but for the impression it gives of being a dead end. It is like a private bit of self-mockery, a sort of ritual of closet masochism that invites, even challenges, everyone to think the worst...
...1940s: Gang Busters and Fibber McGee and Molly. In the best Gang Busters fashion, he told cheering Congressmen that he considered inflation "public enemy No. 1" and pledged a resolute fight against it. Yet what he disclosed of his arsenal of weaponry for the battle seemed a Fibber McGee closet crowded with familiar ideas that have been tried, or at least noisily advocated, before...
...Currier House, one-room singles were converted to "economy doubles" complete with a bunk bed, two desks, a bureau and a small closet. One student said she had sent half her clothes home because of the insufficient space...
...spareness of invention and crudity of spirit. The novelty of Frankenstein is that it was made under more elaborate commercial auspices than usual for the Warhol crowd, but this makes for only sur face differences. Morrissey always made horror movies. This time, he has come out of the closet...
...been universally condemned as a 20th century house of horror. Three men committed suicide there last year, and 46 others attempted it. Most of its inhabitants spend 14 hours a day confined to rooms that are not much larger than a closet. At midday, the noise level reaches the din of a subway station at rush hour. Yet the Tombs, Manhattan's gloomy House of Detention for Men, lives on: a crowded, understaffed, twelve-story abomination that in January gained the distinction of being declared unconstitutional in federal court. Confinement to the Tombs, said the court...