Word: horror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Games (1967). Intrigue, horror-and Simone Signoret...
Snow doubts that mankind will make these efforts. Already, he noted, men recoil in horror from the spectacle of famine in India or Biafra, but do little. "We draw the curtains and take care not to listen to anything which is going on in the streets outside," he said. "We are behaving as though we were in a state of siege." Even if man's quantitative needs can somehow be met, Snow doubts that the quality of civilized life can be maintained if-as demographers widely predict-world population doubles to more than 6 billion...
...church celebrated its centennial and, coincidentally, its pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, is serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Despite its urban location, First Baptist preserves the folksiness and fervent spirit of a country congregation. Architecturally, the church is a 19th century red brick horror, but inside age and polish have mellowed its determined ugliness. The services, too, have a turn-of-the-century flavor. Sermons, by Criswell or one of his three assistant pastors, are four-square Gospel messages; the congregation's favorite hymns are What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Need...
Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...character is a promising one, and perhaps one day Farrow can play it for what it's worth. For now, she is trapped in a glossy, twittering movie that poses as a psychological horror story. Leonora, an over-the-hill prostitute (Elizabeth Taylor), is accosted by Cencion a London bus. The girl invites her home-where Leonora discovers an eerily familiar face in a photograph. Cenci's dead mum was a ringer for the prostitute. And, vice versa, Cenci reminds the prostitute of her daughter, dead lo these seven years. The two settle down symbiotically in Cenci...