Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magnetic tape in the late 1940s. Most music now is recorded onto tape; when that tape is transferred to a master record, loss of quality inevitably occurs. Even if the master is excellent, acoustic impurities are picked up, the "surface noise" that frays the nerves of the audio freak like nails on slate...
...funnier and more stylish horror films, because they're so good about being shocked: "A vampire you say? My word..." Here are a few of the most precious moments in horror history: Ernest Thesiger plying Boris Karloff's Frankenstein monster with brandy and cigars; Carrie telekinetically crucifying her Jesus freak mother; Roy Scheider spooning fish entrails into the sea, prissily calling out to Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss "Why don't you guys shovel some of this shit?" and as he hits the last word, noticing this big shark a few feet from his face; Vincent Price, dressed as Richard...
...theater season, many of the plays that have received the most critical acclaim and a generous measure of audience acceptance have been about the dying, the grotesque, the brutalized and the desolate. The Elephant Man, winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, features a freak who is mon strous, if also in eloquent human pain. Whose Life Is It Anyway? mounts a torch of a brain on the calcified column of a car-wrecked body. In these and other plays of the same tenor, there is much brightly sar donic humor. But what sort...
When technical hiccups occur, the whole global system often begins to tremble and twitch. Example: just as U.S. refinery capacity was being strained by the demand for gasoline, Exxon was hit in late March by a freak fire at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J. The accident has knocked out some 160,000 bbl. per day of refining production until at least June. That has kept the company switching around tankers on the high seas, sending them to other refineries in a desperate rush to make sure that every drop of crude is refined in a hurry...
...acid trip? It's administered to him eucharistically by Treat Williams, demagogue of our clan. John Savage does amazing things with his face, acquiring a glassy-eyed glazed expression as his mind launches through fabricated fantasies of wedded bliss with the luscious Beverly D'Angelo (former debutante gone bourgeois freak) to fantasies of back home in the mid-west American Gothic nightmare. These are tangents which are intelligent, tightly edited and don't resort to multi-layered montage fade outs. John Savage does a convincing portraval of the pleasantly naive Oakie, true to his silent American upbringing. (Unbelievably...