Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brewer, owner of Brigham's, a traditional Phools' Week haunt, said he wasn't sure whether the Lampoon brigade stopped by this semester. "They may have--or they may have been nuts--we throw 'em all out," he said...
...than any Expos paper. Domini's authorial voice is far from polished, his imagery and recurrent motifs reveal some weird phobias and preoccupations, but by and large the events that unfold in real and unreal locales (two stories are set after death and one involves astral projection) compel and haunt...
...this impassioned father/son relationship, Brenman-Bibson finds the unresolved conflict that would haunt his future life and work. Off the stage, he would look for sympathetic father-figures among his male companions, and treat women with the attitude he learned from his father: fear of commitment led to a long string of unstaisfying love affairs. On the stage, Brenman-Bibson sees the onmipresent L. J. Odets lurking in the the employers, the Nazis, and all of the other tyrannical forces at the center of Odets's plays...
...haunt him until his death in 1959. This posthumous volume of fers some vital clues, among them a letter to an editor: "A long time ago when I was writing for pulps I put into a story a line li ke 'He got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.' They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn't appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action...
...movie, alas, lacks sustained ability to haunt. Thomas provides the necessary disembodied footsteps and floor creaks, but the rest is silence. The featured ghost--not just an amorphous white cloud, but a nattily dressed gentleman named Marion--offers nothing more threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those...