Word: frightfully
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...FRIGHT NIGHT (Sack 57) and YEAR OF THE DRAGON (Sack 57) are despite their opposite positions on the budget spectrum, equally affective failures. "You have to believe for that to work," the vampire-on-the-block says of the Cross held out before him. Double ditto, as Dewitt's kid brother says, for powerful horror and drama: you gotta believe...
...butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab of limewood not much thicker than a plank--with the result that everything stands up and out, as if in fright--got transferred to Beckmann's argument with the flat canvas. Even the gestures are religious. Thus the showing of outstretched palms, Beckmann's favorite sign for pathos and surrender, comes from the traditional figure of Christ as the man of sorrows, displaying his wounds...
Usually, the machines are more banal than that. They do still make people uncomfortable, although that is passing with familiarity. Their use has become so widespread that callers no longer feel quite so much the instant of stage fright. Still, the tape on the end of the line, expectantly unreeling, silent as a director awaiting the audition, does intimidate. The caller feels ambushed, like one who has suddenly learned he is being bugged. He becomes more ... responsible for his words. They are not going to vanish into air. They can be replayed again and again, like the videotape...
...fill a specific need. The group, which deals with "food issues intertwined with other aspects of life," according to staffer Marsha Rorty '85, showed a film in December called "I Don't Have to Hide," a story about a bulimic woman. In April it brought the theater group "Food Fright" to Harvard for a "humorous but very moving account of eating disorders," says Rorty, and sponsored a five hour workshop on eating concerns...
BORN. To Adrienne Barbeau, 38, actress who was Maude's tart-tongued daughter on TV for six years and is now a horror-movie queen (Creepshow), and John Carpenter, 36, fright-full film director (Christine) who has cast her in leading roles in his thriller-chillers The Fog and Escape from New York: their first child, a boy; in Los Angeles. Name: John Cody. Weight...