Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to gore, The Stand is more restrained than most King horror shows, but its metaphysical flights are prodigal. Dreams and visions abound, and the demonic villain has supernatural powers of indeterminate nature. King can't resist throwing everything into the pot. A TV movie about the apocalypse can get away with quoting Eliot ("This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper") or Yeats ("What rough beast . . . slouches towards Bethlehem?"), but probably not both. Still, even when The Stand skirts tedium and pretentiousness, King is a rough beast that TV is lucky...
...magazine is hoping to attract nationalfigures such as Vice President Al Gore '69, U.S.Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, and Bill Gates,the founder of Microsoft, as columnists...
...jokes; when a stuffy Disability administrator asks, "What state were you born in?" Simon answers, "Infancy." He reads Zola. He cooks. He fixes cars. He defends the Constitution brilliantly in a classroom showdown with Money's thesis advisor, that sneering elitist bastard Professor Pitkannan (played with relish by Gore Vidal) who finds the document vulgar and crude...
...leaders, for which he crams like a student facing a tough exam -- can be quite impressive. But he rarely does focus that way. He gets a 15-minute intelligence briefing about 8:45 a.m. and confers on international problems with National Security Adviser Tony Lake and Vice President Al Gore a bit later. By 9 or 9:30 a.m. he has spent 30 minutes or so on foreign policy. Except in times of crisis, he is often through...
...Clyde, in possession of the coolest stage effect known to mankind. His butt keeps bleeding throughout the whole play. It starts with a little dribble in the seat of his jeans and proceeds to one giant, bloody, backside stain. Although his entrance is worth it just for the exquisite gore, it signals the death of the play...