Word: feral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underscore his high-minded intentions, he calls his book a fable. This is somewhat misleading, since there are no animals that talk like people but plenty of human characters who sound feral. A Mafia bill collector: "You either got $220 for me or I take your f------ ear home with me." An unwed teenage mother: "I waited to have a baby until I was 15. That's a long time. From eleven to 15 waitin' to have a baby." A slumlord: "The original reason I went to Dobermans was that I fell in love with their teeth. I thought they...
...back home, he says, is more of the same -- the beginning of the same. Everyone in Hope and Glory may be English middle class, but Boorman sees to it that war soon turns the instincts feral. In the rubble of a blitzkrieg, children forage for ghastly souvenirs, and adults renounce a lifetime of propriety for some guilty, convulsive sex. But this is not a horror story, though there are horrors for the Rohans to endure. And though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises...
Working from the principle that too much is never enough, Russell unloads his inventory of weird imagery. Candied corpses and puddles of rancid goo. A woman's nipples that open to reveal eyes. Claire, filthy and feral, a dead rat in her mouth. Stuff like that. In such films as The Devils and Altered States, Russell found a conjurer's balance between sense and surrealism. But with this catalog of chic atrocities he cannot shock, he can only embarrass. For an artist as canny as Russell, that's crazy...
...Moscow all were published in the U.S. The vastly popular "Family of Man" photo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1955 had set the authorized tone for treating global humanity, a tone that to some photographers seemed cloying and official. In the anxieties and feral pleasures that link the Tokyo doorman to the Roman on his Vespa, Klein found his own underpinnings of human affairs. He offered intimacy without violins, civic life without trumpets, humanism with a human face...
...other horror-show serial killer wreaks in an eyewink. Further, the intent of Director Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week with the snipping of ten seconds of feral footsie. In the movie business, almost everyone has to make deals with the devil...