Word: gnaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...
...evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful bidders claimed their prizes, however, hotel employees dressed as commandos leaped from the balconies...
Pushing their cadence up to 37, MIT--which vanquished Yale on April 15--began to gnaw quickly into the Crimson lead. Six seats, four seats, two seats--the lead dwindled as MIT continued its powerful spring. The Crimson could not respond...
Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and California at Berkeley tried to gnaw into the lead, but the Huskies grimly hung on. At 1500 meters the Crimson nosed ahead of California by two seats while still three-quarters of a length behind Washington. Harvard skidded to fourth again in the last 20 strokes as the Californians drove past them by two seats...
...rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor of thrills in all the low-caste genres, knows how to work this territory, nipping lightly on the nerve endings in the early going, then settling down for a protracted gnaw at them as the clocks tick toward the deadline set by the blackmailers...