Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once but several times, a rhetorical ghost from more than ten years ago came back voluntarily. "How's Tricky Dicky?" asked a farmer in the lobby of the bank. A few hours later a small businessman shook his head more in sadness than in anger and remarked, "Well, old Tricky Dicky is in a mess...
...plots, too, have less potential than in Striptease. In Repeat Performance, Hitler's ghost returns to haunt Daddy, first as a garishly dressed woman and then as a bald-headed soldier. The Ghost reproaches Daddy for ceasing to love him, and then attempts to seduce Daddy's son. (Daddy, meanwhile, is running off with his daughter-in-law, She. The purpose of this subplot is never made quite clear.) With uncharacteristic heavy-handedness, Mrozek ends the play by blatantly stating his main point in the Ghost's last lines: "Time for me to go. But I'll be back. Tomorrow...
...program, missed a note, although the work consists almost entirely of difficult solo passages. The orchestra's tone was phenomenal. Also unaccountably unlisted is the costume designer, who in these days of returning prisoners of war adds several dimensions to the Soldier's repeated complaint, "I'm a ghost among the living, "merely by putting him in Vietnam-style fatigues, and then compounds the effect by letting the devil, for all the world like a suburban liberal, offer him a blue collar...
...Ghost of Frankenstein. (1942) Classic Horror II presents the fourth installment of the Frankenstein series with Lugosi as Ygor and Lon Chaney as the monster...
...dancing continued. In November, the BIA ordered its agents to arrest Sitting Bull. Indian police arrived at the tepee of the great Sioux chief, and in a disputed incident, a U.S. corporal shot Sitting Bull, while they were surrounded by ghost dancers...