Word: grunting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duplicitous past (Barry Lyndon) and down the endless bloody corridors of a deranged mind (The Shining). Now he's back. Full Metal Jacket is not a realistic film -- it is horror-comic superrealism, from a God's-eye view -- but it should fully engage the ordinary movie grunt. The boot-camp sequence begins as high farce, with the D.I. taunting his recruits in arias of obscenity that tickle and singe the ear. Kubrick's majestic camera tracks across the barracks, it ascends obstacle courses, it glides past the soldiers, then abruptly cuts to close-ups, to study their pain head...
...paces the corridor of the Nation section in his stocking feet, puzzling out his story, drawing together elements from a welter of reportage and weaving those parts into the firm, seamless narratives that have made his writing almost legendary at TIME. Every so often on these jaunts a thoughtful grunt escapes his lips and he smiles in satisfaction. He then heads quickly back to his computer terminal to tap out the results of his stroll in paragraphs of carefully linked fact and perception. "Working with George," says Reporter-Researcher Katherine Mihok, who has done so on many occasions, including last...
...idiot savant has a long tradition in the U.S., much of it as victim. A typical 19th century savant, Tom Bethune was sightless and barely able to grunt monosyllables. But he had the ability to play complicated classical piano pieces by ear, and promoters exhibited him in vaudeville as an amusing freak. Since that time, savants -- retarded and autistic people who have inexplicable gifts, usually in art, mathematics and music -- have been the objects of diversion and exploitation. But at a unique institution called Hope University in Anaheim, Calif., they are being trained to reveal their surprising gifts and develop...
...movie; it's like being in Viet Nam. Platoon makes you feel you've been there and never want to go back." James Woods, who starred in Stone's previous film, Salvador, calls him an "artist whose vision transcends politics. Everyone from the ex-hippie to the ex-grunt can be moved by Platoon. And his passion isn't bogus -- he doesn't play Imagine at the end of the film to break people's hearts." Brian De Palma, who filmed Scarface from a Stone script, sees him achieving a volcanic maturity in Platoon: "He has now channeled his feeling...
Wanda: Not anymore, Ralph. These are different--they go in the sexual subsection of Interpersonal Realization. For example, this one by Dagmar O'Connor-- How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life--is not one of those grunt-and-grope books, like The Joy of Sex. As it says on the flap, it's "the book for the Age of Commitment." It's about intimacy and building a great marriage by finding lifelong sexual excitement with your mate...