Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, fed up with his own "Frankenstein monster," Ronald Searle confirmed the closing of his imaginary school. In his new book, Souls in Torment, his girls are still playing their old tricks-but they are doing so for the last time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will...
...Stadium that gave the first push to big-time college football--a game that de-emphasis-minded officials now regard as something of a Frankenstein creation--was opened for the first time on November...
...good monster picture, as any moviemaker knows, is worth its weight in ghouls. Bent on scaring the money as well as the daylights out of the customers, Hollywood is currently preparing the biggest assortment of horror pictures since the Frankenstein days...
Bible Principles. But in the past year a new positive attitude has been evident. Says Pedagogy Professor Karl Frankenstein of Hebrew University: "This has been most striking in their changed approach to new immigrants . . . Cynicism and sterile nationalism...
What separates Cabinet from the Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man class is its bizarre scenery, which is alone worth the admission. The sets are meant to appear painted, and their designers did not try to imitate reality; rather they depicted a mental world furbished by a madman. The prologue calls it "impressionistic," but it must be seen, not described...