Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FLORIDA'S WALT DISNEY WORLD, the hot new "ride" is George Lucas' Alien Encounter. In this fond tribute to William Castle, sleaze showman extraordinaire of 13 Ghosts and The Tingler, visitors enter a circular room, are strapped into seats and see a huge hideous monster writhing in a plastic tube. Then the alien escapes--and the lights go out. Heavy footsteps approach, and your seat gets a violent rattle. You feel the creature's breath and reptilian tongue on the back of your neck. An icky liquid drenches you; is it someone's exploding guts or your own fear-sweat...
Much of the fault of The Language of Life lies with Moyers' decision to "go soft"--to play the genial, wide-eyed interviewer who encounters a revelation at every turn. He's fond of faux-naif questions (at least one hopes the faux is genuine) such as, "So politics is not only a matter of revolution?" or "Mysticism wasn't meant to be public, was it?" The result is a series of earnest one-on-one interviews that promote just those traits the contemporary poetry scene least needs to encourage: its solemn exhibitionism, its squishy mysticism, its self-absorption...
Maybe we're just a little too fond of ice cream. But we have passed the decisions along to you. You've got three months of summer to do what we did in two hours. Experiment and enjoy...
...hear me," he recalled. At times, his Serb pursuers approached, beating the ground with their rifles in an effort to flush him out. On one occasion, he lay motionless as a cow browsed on blades of grass between his legs. Eventually he nicknamed two cows that were especially fond of his hiding spot "Leroy" and "Alfred"; the old man who herded them he called "Tinkerbell" because of the cowbell he carried. At another point, O'Grady was awakened by the roar of an artillery piece going off right next to him. He says, "It scared the living daylights...
...entertainment conglomerates are fond of invoking the First Amendment. That's because there's precious little excuse for what they've been up to the past 20 years. We've worked so long and hard at making audiences dumber, they have actually become dumber...