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They were the original movies your mother didn't want you to see. For half a century exploitation films--a robust compromise between stag loops and major-studio product--would grind away in Main Street fleabags and drive-ins, inflicting their lurid, no-budget fantasies on generations of bored salesmen and horny teens. Hollywood put sweet dreams on screen; exploitation directors filmed the raging id. See brutal men sweat over balky virgins! Thrill as mousy guys find sluts whose sexual appetites are insatiable! Or, as Rene Bond says it in Edward D. Wood Jr.'s 1971 Necromania, "insashable...
...routine was a tiring grind of science courses, labs, training with the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), membership in the Black Students Association (BSA), and work at World Teach Inc., a nonprofit organization that sends college graduates overseas to teach English in developing countries...
...about which he may have spoken too soon. For Margaret Reeb is not simply the eccentric heroine in her own romantic western. A bona-fide scion of the mining heroes she celebrates, she has the financial leverage to throw a shudder into the massive federal machinery she believes would grind up their dream...
...prominent producer says many crew members will resist the rule because they enjoy earning overtime pay. But cameramen like Kirk Bloom, who worked on Titanic, want some kind of limit to the grind. "I'd rather have a little less work and a little more of a life," he says. Ed Gutentag, another Titanic veteran, is one of many crew members who say Hershman's death hit home because they have caught themselves dozing at the wheel. "I smack myself in the face as hard as I can to stay awake," Gutentag says. "But the big picture is, What value...
...students and administrators with whom I would never have met otherwise; they have introduced me to a range of opinions and viewpoints which I had never before encountered; and, most important, they have allowed me to continue to be a part of life above and beyond the daily academic grind of legal scholarship...