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...corrupt aristocrat moves painfully by day. At night, of course, he is able to change from man to bat to wolf to fog. The human characters who have been hunting Dracula in the light now lie abed, weak with doubt, receptive to phantoms. A winged shape flutters at the casement-ludicrous as a plot device, but classically suggestive as an embodiment of dread...
Still, Stapleton's damnable dog, trained to kill, roams menacingly over the picturesque moors and prehistoric ruins that the art department enthusiastically ran up on the Fox back lot. Moreover, Director Sidney Lanfield was careful to keep his fog machines rolling, never permitting the sun to rise on this peculiar corner of the British Empire. The result, for viewers of a certain age anyway, is a sort of double-edged nostalgia: not merely for two beloved characterizations but for a whole vanished style of moviemaking, in which menacing shadows lay over every scene and divinely dumb people blandly insisted...
...which isn't to say that Decter's theories might not have something to them. They're just hard to evaluate. Many of her ideas have a shred of truth behind the exaggeration and the fog of her own values; for example, her sketch of "The Sexual Revolutionist" who, aided by modern contraceptive technology and by her liberal mother, falls into a series of relationships based only on sex and finally revolts against sex completely, joining a commune of women who reject their sexual exploiters, seems fairly plausible. On the other hand, Decter cannot imagine that the revolt may have...
...Francisco may still be a mecca for sophisticated singles, but anyone with children has lately found the city by the bay to be as chilly as a fog rolling in through the Golden Gate. A recent survey by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission revealed that 69% of landlords in the Marina, 60% in the Sunset and 50% in the Richmond neighborhoods refuse to rent to applicants with children. With a vacancy rate of only 2% in the city, this left little room for anyone with youngsters...
...count the number of times I walk around the yard. We also talked about turning the daily exercises into a big excursion. Well, we have just completed our 78,514th round and thus-on our excursion-we should be able to see the Bering Straits in the fog." "You've done that all these years," stammered Hess incredulously. "Yes, I have," replied Speer. "Eight years, five months and ten days. All in all, 13,175 miles...