Word: festers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smothering all his lines with wilderness noise and human babble. Or the scenery may get to you--fog and snow turning into literal shrouds, raw timber buildings sitting squalid like open wounds in the woods. It's a movie that jello-quivers your mind--the death scenes just kinda fester up there afterwards, shake, rattle, and roll. Choose your poison...
...compromise, which is essential to democracy, seems to have gone out of style in recent years of angry all-or-nothing politics. Especially when the Congress is Democratic and the President is Republican, the result is often no legislation, and many issues are left to fade or fester. In an encouraging departure from that pattern, the Ford Administration and a mixed bag of Senators have reached agreement on one of the most sensitive issues of all: wiretapping U.S. citizens for national security purposes...
...first Ursa's great-grandmother and then Ursa's grandmother-his own child-out of his Brazilian plantation fields and turned both women into enthralled concubines and whores. With considerable dignity First Novelist Gayl Jones explores black female sexuality and the remnants of slave brutality that still fester in black male-female relations. No black American novel since Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) has so skillfully traced psychic wounds to a sexual source...
...movie is peppered with direct steals from famous stars, roles and songs, most of which originated in the '30s. The hunch-backed servant Igor (Marty Feldman) has the bulging eyes and eerie mischievousness of Harpo Marx, or of the Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity...
...major economic powers to mesh policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind...