Word: halloween
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PART OF THE APPEAL of John Carpenter's Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13 lies in their essential vileness, and in the harsh, sly, single-minded persistence with which Carpenter strums and strains his audience's nerves. Assault on Precinct 13 is a kind of hipped-up, relocated Western: an undermanned Los Angeles police precinct station is besieged by a silent army of murderous street gangsters; Halloween is a scare picture about an escaped lunatic who, having returned to his home town Halloween night, stalks some high school girls babysitting in adjoining houses. The combined budgets of these two films...
...October 1977. Halloween in Providence. Harvard tails Brown, 20-15, third-and-three on the 20, five minutes to go. The Crimson throws twice, incomplete, instead of running the ball. Suddenly we realize that the Harvard football team really isn't all that good...
...film loosely follows the actual robbery which took place in Boston's North End back in 1950. That one was concocted by 11 men, seven of whom slipped into the Brink's warehouse one evening wearing pea-coats and Halloween masks and made off with the loot. At the time, the Brink's gang wasn't looked on as a bunch of affable fellows who just happened to stumble onto the crime of the century. In fact, a lot of people were convinced that the gang had wide underworld connections. Even six years after the robbery, when the case finally...
...What Radcliffe offers doesn't seem to address the needs of undergraduate women now. I don't need a Halloween party from Radcliffe," Kathleen Gygi '79 said...
...Federal Reserve Board and the central banks of Germany, Switzerland and Japan did in fact buy up enough dollars to hold the price well above the lows established in the pre-Halloween panic. But it was clear that the dollar has not yet developed any upward momentum of its own, and will not until Carter can convince the hard-bitten cynics of the exchange markets that the U.S. is prepared to follow a tough anti-inflation policy as long as may be necessary. Said Walter Seipp, vice president of the Westdeutsche Landesbank in Düsseldorf: "Everything depends on whether...