Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subject so that the two of them felt absolutely natural together, only then could the journalist begin to unearth the story. The Literary Gentleman With A Seat in the Grandstand gave way to George Plimpton playing football with the Detroit Lions. Novelists fumed. But some signed up, people like Gore Vidal, William Styron and especially Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, who began to use journalistic techniques in their writing...
...many American movies, simply scare the audience. Unlike Straw Dogs, or a Deer Hunter, the film does not manipulate the audience by quick cuts to gruesome scenes, so that one fears every sudden change of scene. That, in effect, is manipulated terror: one fears what gore might come next. In Jimmie Blacksmith, however, Schepisi imbues his simple close-ups with increasing echoes of horror. Slowly these scenes draw the audience into an ever-widening circle of violence. Sometimes the scenes are frightening. Sometimes not. It is the randomness one fears. One cannot hear a baby scream, or watch someone mixing...
Fortunately, the staying power of the programs is doubtful, as the recent casualties show. Still, gore springs eternal at the networks. This month, ABC plans' to air the second installment of Catastrophe! No Safe Place, a three-part disaster roundup in which Charles Bronson narrates horrors like the Hindenburg explosion; and The World's Most Spectacular Stunt Man, a special featuring four feats by a Hollywood pro. It could be, cracks PBS Producer Tony Geiss, that public TV may be forced to counter with its own entry in the reality competition: That's Intelligent. -By Martha Smilgis...
...tale told in the Black Forest differed, apparently, from the one that was related on the shores of the Mediterranean. The three little pigs did not make it to Italy; they became three grownup girls named Catherine, Julia and Marietta. Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading. When the good characters are afflicted, they feel sadness but not pain; the villains are punished or dispatched at the end with commendable speed. In The Marriage of a Queen and a Bandit, a pesky ex-husband is discovered hiding in the bedroom...
...Revolutionary War shook Cambridge out of its tranquillity. When the British troops left Boston for Lexington and Concord, they came by way of Cambridge, landing on Lechmere Point the night of April 18th, 1775. Silently they crept over the causeway (now. Gore St.). Their movement would have gone unnoticed save for one British regular who took sick and found his way to a house near the point. From there, the alarm was given, explaining why the Cambridge militia were among the first aroused...