Word: frights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the Rhineland's larger towns and cities, carnival began gaining momentum in early January, as an occasional woman ventured out wearing a red or green fright wig. Then, on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, normal life came to a halt, as Rhinelanders abandoned themselves to what they called "die fallen Tage " (the crazy days...
...walked to the apartment of another friend, Gene and I talked about two things: the fright and weakness in the girl's face, and the woman who helped. She came to help despite the loud noises of men fighting, in spite of the paranoia that infects neighborhoods where violence is a recent memory. She had ignored the usual stories about how helping addicts leaves you open for more trouble. She ignored the usual refuge of the uninvolved--the excuse of inconvenience. This woman had come out of her apartment to ease the suffering she did not cause, of a girl...
...movie to feel the sex, the passion and the hate it contained. The audience, like the critics, thought its role was to decide whether Last Tango is the film of the century. Exorcist audiences talk afterwards about how scared they were. They know the film is about fright, even though its manipulative story appears in disguise as a study of demons...
...Hamner Jr., creator of television's The Waltons, a soft cow-eyed evocation of the Depression struggles of another Southern mountain family. Like John-Boy Walton, Mary Call wants to be a writer, and Hamner supplies reveries for her ("Lately I've begun to feel a bottomless fright") that have much less adolescent intensity than a kind of brilliantined adult sentimentality. Where the Lilies Bloom was made as a G-rated family movie, which is the probable reason- though hardly a good excuse- for avoiding the harsher, more pressing realities of the situation the movie portrays. It wants...
...afraid the team might suffer from stage fright, but overall they came through just fine," head Coach Johnny Lee said yesterday. "The four freshmen had me worried, but they really did well, especially the second time around...