Word: gummed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniels details, commercial monsters have now become almost as common as real-life assassins. There are monsters on TV, monsters in comic books, monsters on bubble-gum cards. The Rolling Stones turned their act into a horror show and so did Alice Cooper. Degeneration proceeds apace. Since the book was written, news media have reported secret showings of a pornographic horror movie in which the heroine, at the climax of her big sex scene, is literally murdered in full view of the camera. At this point the horror story merges with something much more frightening: the horrors of real life...
...like Herkimer and Fultonville sit grand junction-type Dutch mansions, propped-up and naked-looking, simple and sensible roosts for burghers long dead, and often no one lives in them anymore. And Canajahorie, where Mary Ann Krupsak comes from, where three toy factories line up in a row Beechnut Gum, Beechnut Lifesavers, Beechnut Baby Food. This town, too, is tired and rickety. No one gets off there, and it seems like all the young people have moved out. This is beautiful country, up to Herkimer, anyway, where things flatten out and get boring near Utica and Rome. West toward Syracuse...
...some, it began late Tuesday night, after Gowdy and Garagiola, Stockton and Harrelson, had retired from the airwaves. It began on the gum-stained linoleum floors of Logan Airport's United Airlines terminal, with a sleeping bag or blanket, a six pack, and a homemade banner or an old sheet. The faithful, the hardcore faithful, were there all night...
Theorem No. 1: Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representation of contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation of anything-except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting upright in a chair and chewing gum simultaneously...
...Night Moves (TIME, July 21). Harper is the original Archer, except for his name, which was changed because Newman's most successful movies always had that lucky H in the title (The Hustler, Hud). Newman is generally amusing and attractive to watch, even when he is chomping gum rather than establishing any stronger character points. His role demands only that he ask questions and piece together one of those traditional Macdonald puzzles about sudden death and damaged children...