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...profile did provide something of a focus for the formless dread, but it seemed to do nothing to help catch a killer. At week's end another body was found, this one floating in the South River in De Kalb County, bringing the death toll to 20 victims. The body was identified as that of Curtis Walker, 13, who had been missing since Feb. 19, when he failed to return home after looking for after-school work. Officials speculate that Walker's body may have been dropped into the river upstream from an overpass. Cause of death: asphyxiation...
Horror movies are most chilling when they call on a fear from our collective unconscious. Moviegoers can empathize with being attacked when vulnerable in a shower, being blind with a killer in the room, or swimming in shark-infested waters. But being mutilated by a formless monster living in the sand is not necessarily an ingrained fear. Nonetheless, this is Blood Beach's device, and as the movie's Detective Royko says, in typical horror movie fashion; "it will strike again and again and again until somebody does something about...
...Enrique Lopez gathered together the most galling anecdotes about Harvard students and their legendary conceit he could find. He saran-wrapped the stories in discussions about the privilege of the exceptional, and arranged the packages in neat rows labelled with the names of the famous. He offered the formless, appalling concoction as The Harvard Mystique, more like a warmed-over TV dinner than a book, and called it an investigation of the conditions of acceptance into, attendance, and graduation from the oldest of Ivy League institutions...
...Tuesday, the fourth day of the war, the Chinese advance resumed with a vengeance. A seemingly formless front rapidly developed two main, logical prongs of attack: one in the northwest on the railroad line leading south to Hanoi, the other in the the east on the major rail link that parallels Highway 1, the jugular thoroughfare from Friendship Pass. Both thrusts appeared to aim directly at Viet Nam's capital. At the same time, an auxiliary Chinese force, spearhead units of an estimated three more divisions, probed toward the coast for a possible end run aimed at cutting off Highway...
...aircars were made to look so hard-edged, so real and on occasion so dented and dirty that audiences felt they could reach out and touch them. In Close Encounters, the flying saucers, the giant mother ship and the extraterrestrial creatures are meant to look alien and so formless that the imagination is forced to fill in the details. "We went for a style that is nebulous but with brilliant light," explains Special Effects Chief Douglas Trumbull, who also created the effects of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. "In a way, it's going back to the old radio...