Word: conk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make of each other. There are no shock cuts to the monster. In fact, no visible monster! Because the audience sees only what the camera does. At night it is sometimes pitch-black; for excruciating minutes, we are literally in the dark. The physical mayhem is limited to one conk on the head. There's no slashing--except of everything extraneous to the creation of psychological disorder. Blair Witch tweaks Mies van der Rohe's dictum into "Less is morbid" and makes the viewer collaborate actively in both the scenario and the scariness. Says Sanchez: "Horror is something that works...
...world except maybe the judges, has staged a damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...