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Word: horror (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass of people continued to file slowly through the dark corridor that passed itself off as 12th Street. A crowd that didn't look so much like a bunch of millennial radicals as it looked like a crowd out of a fifties horror movie, Exactly. That was it. We were exactly like one of those mindless crowds that takes to the street during the final reel of every fifties horror movie. Except that there were supposed to be a monster at our rear, but we had no monster. All we had was a bunch of methodical cops, crop-dusting away...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...without order, violent emotional events with scant meaning. In thus interpreting the continuity of social process and order after individual death, Renoir finally recognizes the seriousness of his material. His fluid and continuous relationships between men, his heroes' deaths at the hands of society are given the atmosphere of horror they deserve. Renoir is morally engaged in Rules of the Game as in few other films...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: The Moviegoer Rules of the Game | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

...thin, symbolic line spreads through a city of false fronts. Washington is supposed to be a city of beauty, but Friday morning it was a horror city of despair and fear. Not even a terrible beauty had been born...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...Year of the Pig is a new kind of chiller movie. Audiences sit in helpless frustration watching scenes of unreeling historical horror. Producer-Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order) has taken his ghoulish episodes from newsreels made in and about Viet Nam over the past three decades. The result is a slanted but devastating account of the spiraling American involvement in Southeast Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Propaganda Chiller | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...young at heart, listen as "The Gingerbread House" is retold with a newfangled horror. Spellbound spectators, hear for the first time Noah's brother laugh, then rage, at the builder of the ark. And much, much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Man Circus | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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