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Word: haephestus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Preview of Coming Afflictions | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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