Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prisinzano said he had been surprised to see the doors locked when he arrived for breakfast yesterday morning, before going to his current job. "So I had to drink my coffee around the corner," he added. "Now there's nowhere else to congregate," he complained. "I'm going to miss this old place--I don't know where to go now in the morning...
...that picture lay in its relocation of that classic device of the horror genre, the haunted house. Instead of being a Gothic pile isolated on a bleak moor, it was a spaceship visiting an unwelcoming planet in an obscure corner of the universe. But the situation was the immemorial one: a monster, in this case an alien life-form requiring human hosts for gestation, is stalking the spaceship's endless, ill-lighted corridors, picking off victims one by one. But there was only one creature, six frightened earthlings and little more subtext (or, for that matter, dialogue) to the film...
...movie that takes you up the ladder from apprehension to anxiety to fear to flat-out horror. Those big bugs are smart in their yucky way, and they are everywhere. Each time one of their human opponents opens a door or rounds a corner, you know terrible trouble is about to ensue. Anytime someone confidently announces what looks to be a foolproof plan to exterminate the aliens, you can be equally sure that this is another example of pride going before a slimy fall. Add to this plenty of snappy dialogue, gloriously staged combat sequences, imaginative hardware and special effects...
...craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with evil...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on the corner of Memorial Drive and JFK St. will not be completely finished until next spring, due to delays in receiving the granite necessary to build its centerpiece--the JFK Memorial Fountain. But according to its planners at the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), by the time 350th visitors arrive, they will be able to stroll the $2.5 million project's newly paved paths and enjoy its lush grass, instead of the current view of dirt and bulldozers...