Word: depalma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-forgotten objects tumble out once we start to open the door. Behind the spiderwebs lie the dust-covered paraphernalia representing our past. In the mess, we find our first A in grade school, the cast from our first broken wrist, cracked pictures of former lovers; in Brian DePalma's case, he apparently re-discovered the reels from his 1969 movie The Wedding Party. Sometimes closets are best left unopened...
Other people who enjoyed the outcome of Allard vs. Boston College included Mike Smerczynski, who came on in relief of Bill Larson and John Sorich to notch his third win. Smuzz put out the fire in the eighth, walking Paul DePalma to load the bases but forcing Brian Landry to ground to Bauer to douse B.C.'s threat...
...forced the batter, Don McGuirk, to pop up on the next pitch. BOSTON COLLEGE (7) AB R H Bl Follen, df 4 1 1 1 DeDonato, 2b 4 1 1 1 Mayock, 1b 4 1 3 0 Smith, rf 4 0 1 1 Casey, dh 2 2 1 1 Depalma, ph 0 0 0 0 Landry, 3b 4 0 1 1 Scott, ss 3 1 1 1 McGulrk, c 5 1 1 0 Murphy, 1f 5 0 1 1 35 7 11 7 HARVARD (13) AB R H Bl Chicarello, dh 3 0 0 0 Weller...
...crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...
...Stewart in Rear Window, I am unseen); but there's something frightening about seeing your own harmless perversions enthusiastically endorsed by hundreds of people. Except these people didn't seem to want to question their responses. They seemed like the leering, drooling maniacs in the asylum scene of Brian Depalma's Dressed to Kill, applauding the strangulation and partial stripping of a nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought...