Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...27th year with the Harvard harriers, was surprised by his bunch of "wild and crazy guys" during morning practice at Groton. McCurdy was standing on the course, stop-watch in tow, waiting for his charges to hustle by. Instead, a van drove up through the early morning fog; and out jumped the squad, stripped naked for a sunrise Chinese fire drill. They then got back into the van and drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over his new accomodations at remodeled Dillon Field House. Mr. Hockey...
...ancient Douglas headed north over the Gulf of Mexico, flying through the night with no approved flight plan or warning lights and maintaining radio silence. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) picked it up on radar as it flew low into dense fog over Louisiana. The foreign invaders might have escaped detection altogether but for the fact that their plane lost power and crash-landed in the trees near Farmerville, just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border...
...protests by bureaucratic mysto-fog...
...word of praise goes to the solid set and the dramatic lighting; also to the special effects: the fog, the puffs of smoke, the trickling blood, the bat that flies over the audience, and the fieldmouse that jumps out of Renfield's hand and scurries across the floor into the fireplace. There is fun, too, in the soundtrack: chilling animal calls in the distance, snippets of Debussy and Mahler and Holst, and a wonderfully ominous neo-Wagnerian leitmotif for tuba and timpani...
...only coherence was that of mood, but the songs leaked suggestive bits of near-meaning that made beyond-sense, especially when heard through a chemical fog. Re-creating this fog in a film is what Director Michael Schultz and Producer Robert Stigwood have tried to do, and, given the $12 million budget they had, it was inevitable that they would try too hard...