Word: greated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only other thing worth mentioning about Dracula--aside from the terrible Latex, greasepaint and collodion jobs on a few of the vampires, and the turn-of-the century, tradition vs. modernism theme Badham and Richter apparently tried to concoct in the visuals--is the great love scene that stopped the show on Broadway. As Dracula and Lucy begin to embrace, their figures dissolve into multi-colored silhouettes and recede into the distance, whereupon a bunch of shapely limbs wind and unwind to John Williams' less than austere music. The whole thing is modeled on the title sequences in the Bond...
...remakes, a frisky summer shocker that will give you a decent evening out but not a whole lot more. But what am I to tell Director Badham when he says to me, "I played by your rules for good horror movies. I got a smooth script and a great cast: Laurence Oliver is Van Helsing. I kept it playful and tongue-in-cheek: huge, somewhat stylized sets, plenty of action, a leading lady with nice tits...
Though the Japanese grumbled that they were not endangering the great mammals, both they and the Soviets, the only nations owning fleets of factory whalers, are expected to abide by the I.W.C. decisions. Antiwhalers figure that may save some 10,000 whales next year, mostly sperms-assuming, of course, that pirates like Sierra do not step up their own operations. If so, conservation groups will surely retaliate, and that could be trouble for humans as well as whales...
...riddled with spies, as Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled in her magnificent memoir Hope Against Hope. Had Mayakovsky not tak en his own life, he would surely have fallen victim to such informers, as Mandelstam and hundreds of other writers did during the Great Purges of the late '30s. But who could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters in the pitiful drama that is played out in this book. A person's be havior, and even character, she wrote, "is always...
...Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain his achievement. Like other scientists who were also able to see great distances, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. -Peter Stoler