Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create this season's funkiest fable. Originally, Dante's gremlins were neither intelligent nor impishly charming. "They liked to eat," he says. "That's all they did. They would eat people's legs off, chew people's fingers. They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...could not choke to death, in order to complete the work of the noose. To ensure that the spectacle was properly attended, students were prevented from leaving the campus, but many turned their backs and refused to watch. When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased the dog around the campus and, failing to catch it, shot the animal dead...
...judicial system seeks to match crimes with punishments, it sometimes succeeds with sure-footed alacrity, sometimes fails entirely and sometimes, like a shaggy-dog story, just goes on and on. In five venues last week, the system offered up examples illustrating all of the above...
...divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties." Although they cast spells over their ex-husbands that reduced all three to inert household objects, their witchcraft is ordinarily mischievous rather than malign. When Alexandra wants to walk her dog on the beach without a leash, she simply conjures up a thunderstorm to drive bathers away...
...still one of the American theater's most mysteriously buried treasures, Linney, who also teaches writing, is obviously speaking from the heart here. Laughing Stock's other short plays are slighter: an anecdote about death and telephones and a shaggy-dog story about an old woman's discovery that her 70-year marriage was founded on a sly joke. But they too are marked by Linney's singular talent for stating wild ideas with high, simplifying intelligence and for drawing deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line is misplaced or wasted...