Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes they are destroyed by it. Losey shares with Playwright Harold Pinter, one of his most frequent collaborators, a fascination with the surfaces of illusion, with the means by which people delude themselves, and with the mechanics of their inevitable undoing. In earlier Losey-Pinter films, the catalysts of doom were generally characters of a certain ambiguous authority, like the gentleman's gentleman in The Servant or the young girl at Oxford in Accident. In their new film, The Go-Between, it is convention that plays the villain...
...made remotely clear, but a reconciliation is brought about partly through their little daughter. Harris leaves, only to be trapped and tortured by McVey. When one of Harris' fingers is tossed before Collings like a medieval gage, he gallops off to save his drifter pal and meet his doom...
...engorged caterpillars to egg-laying moths, federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to stop the pests "Spread."Inspectors face the thankless task of searching campers and trailers for gypsy moth eggs. Scientists hope to put out synthetic sex lures that attract libidinous male moths to traps and doom. When the lures were tested in Mississippi, says William H. Gillespie, chairman of the National Gypsy Moth Advisory Council in Charleston, W. Va., "all the male moths did was fly around and frustrate themselves. They never did find any gals to procreate with...
Till the crack of doom...
...Neills were a family of intimate and obsessive intensity, and Director Arvin Brown and his players never let us forget it. The dialogue is the music of doom as if played by a great string quartet. Years after the play had been written, Carlotta O'Neill recalled that "when he started Long Day's Journey, it w.as a most strange experience to watch that man being tortured every day by his own writing. His eyes would be all red, and he looked ten years older than when he went in in the morning. I think he felt freer...