Word: gores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after his death, Hollywood fell into a reverent silence on the subject of thrillers. The few bright children of Hitchcock's style, such as Brian De Palma (Dressed to Kill) and John Carpenter (Christine), were toiling in the fetid cellar of shock tactics; they took their cue from the gore and funereal fun of Psycho, not the narrative crisscrossing of Strangers on a Train. De Palma and Carpenter were only serving their audience. The music- video generation was disinclined to track the intricacies of a well-made plot. Those tame pleasures were best left to TV sleuths and their fogy...
DRESS GRAY (NBC). A military-school cadet's drowning reveals seedy goings-on beneath the spit and polish. Gore Vidal's adaptation of the novel by Lucian K. Truscott IV unraveled a good mystery and showed a rare feel for the milieu...
...Under the grotty gore of David Cronenberg's nifty horror comedy lurks something even more terrifying: a parable of a lover's fidelity, no matter how repulsive the physical decay, no matter how great the emotional sacrifice...
Truth is my friends aren't proud of me for my claim to fame. Or my family or anyone, including me. They think it's funny. I've got over two dozen copies of Gore Vidal's Duluth at home. They make great joke gifts...
...limits, the current decision drew sharp criticism from Capitol Hill. "It is unbelievable that at a time when the Administration's foreign policy is in a shambles, they want to complicate the situation by raising another major issue," said Democratic Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington. Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee predicted that the move would strain relations in the Western alliance and termed it a "mistake in judgment every bit as serious in the long term as shipping missiles to Khomeini...