Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could it happen again? Could two jetliners collide on another runway and produce a catastrophe to match the one that exploded at Tenerife? The experts will never say "Never," but the chances of such a recurrence are reassuringly slim. Tenerife was a freak accident at a minor airport, brought about by a chain of incidents, coincidences and human failures that are unlikely to occur again. As John McLucas, the outgoing head of the Federal Aviation Administration, told TIME Aviation Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "We cannot say that it's impossible for a situation like Tenerife to occur...
...that Joan Didion has produced a remarkable modern variation on Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. Her technique may seem feverish but it is calculated to give the novel its unique quality-a blend of literary invention and the sort of lurid stories found on the "freak-death" pages of big-city newspapers. Her ear for contemporary speech rhythms, her eye for the incriminating details rank with those of William Gaddis in J.R. But it is Didion's romantic imagination of disaster that puts innocence and corruption on their inevitable collision course. There is, after all, some...
...Benno Blimpie (James Coco) is no freak in spirit. In his desperate need for love, his touching vulnerability, and his wistful desire for the approval of other children, he is linked to every human being who ever has been or ever will be born. His mother (Rosemary De Angelis), an embittered witch, treats Benno like scum and heaps epithets on him like offal. His father (Roger Serbagi) does not hate Benno, but one minute is about the attention span of his concern, so it comes to the same thing. Denied, neglected, degraded by everyone he turns to, Benno devours...
...find his car gone. It has been towed. Sweeney goes to the city pound to pick it up, but it's a rented car and the registration is back home in Cleveland. Sorry, Pat: no registration, no automobile. Another harrowing fairy tale of The Big Apple to freak out folks in the countryside...
...affable and shambling, his pupils spinning like pinwheels, has a good few minutes at the beginning of the movie. So does Director Pierson, as he captures the schizy, druggy, enclosed, exploding tension of rock superstardom. After that, Kristofferson-playing the Norman Maine surrogate, John Norman Howard-is required to freak for Esther and explain his love by comparing the experience to fishing for marlin. It is the rendering of the romance that lays the movie low for good. John Norman (both names, please) is suicidal apparently because, like the film makers, he can not make up his mind whether...