Word: horror
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate re-release of all Harvard films. I can envision "Love Story" becoming the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" of the '90's, especially if Crimson Key members fan out around the country and supply additional lines as they do for all first-year students. "Soul Man" and "The Paper Chase" could draw a lot of funds for Harvard Law School. Who could ask for a more vibrant spokesperson than John Houseman...
WITH the rest of the world we learn rapidly that the difficulties remaining for the Germans and Europeans are vast. For reasons of superpower and continental security, reunification remains out of the question. The Western powers, hearing the echoes of the past--two world wars and inexpressible human horror--look to the recreation of a unified Germany in central Europe with unvoiced misgiving...
...another anthology show, its stories linked by an antique shop whose objects were cursed and sold to unsuspecting customers. Each week three continuing characters try to retrieve one of the objects before it wreaks its supernatural havoc. That serviceable premise provides the excuse for segments that range from old horror chestnuts (the ventriloquist controlled by his dummy) to spooky original tales (two abused children lure playmates into an evil playhouse...
Friday the 13th's worst sin is an obsession with clunky, overexplanatory dialogue laying out the supernatural ground rules ("Demons can only rise or return on a full moon -- that's why the spectral energy is gathering ^ . . ."). But the show delivers a stronger dose of pure horror than anything else on TV. In the season's two-hour premiere episode, Lucifer tried to take over a convent in France. Before the overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering...
...Colonel Muammar Gaddafi himself. To hear the Libyan leader tell it, in an interview with the Egyptian weekly al- Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism." That is a no-no. Avowed the newly scrupulous Gaddafi: "We have withdrawn our support to such groups...