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A fire-and-brimstone freak posing as mother in the case of one Carrie White. This specimen of faith-gone-fanatic seems straight out of Jonathan Edwards's congregation, dividing her time between spreading the Good Word among the suburban heathen and tormenting her daughter at the slightest hint of...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: I Was a Teenage Telekinetic | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

...That's fanaticism. And Henry Miller is not fanatic about anything, not even sex. Curiously enough, under the macho veneer of the critic's voice lies a kind of prudery. That Miller sublimates murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truthfully, at any rate | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

As the picture opens. Carrie -played with consummate craft by Sissy Spacek, who was so fine in Badlands-could not be a more hopeless case. She is the child of a religious fanatic (Piper Laurie) who is sexually repressed to the point of madness. Carrie does not even know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Movable Feast | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Castro was apparently wrong about direct CIA involvement, which was forcefully denied by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Subsequent investigation has shown that the sabotage was carried out by a fanatic underground network of Cuban exiles known as CORU (Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas), which was organized early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: The Exile Bombers | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

The city worker he grinned at, also a precinct captain in the mayor's own 11th ward, returned his smile. He knew tonight was important. Mayor Richard J. Daley wanted this to be the largest parade ever held for a single individual. It would be bigger than the torchlight parades...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Machine Machinations | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

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