Word: infernos
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...Towering Inferno in a critically impartial state of mind. On the one hand, I was driving back from Danvers with some friends after a lobster dinner and felt like seeing a movie, any movie, when the Liberty Tree Mall loomed up out of the North Shore fog. On the other hand, I was sure The Towering Inferno was going to be a disaster film in more ways than one. After all the genre included such winners as Tora! Tora! Tora! (which destroyed what was, when assembled for the film, the world's 14th largest airforce, and nearly drove its producers...
...fall from grace, claims Eve in the first segment of The Apple Tree. If this were the case, then we should not be surprised if, after the show's run has ended, we learn that Leverett House Arts Society has sunk to the lower circles of the inferno...
...dusk, the poor come home to another meal of beans and rice; then, they relax in the doorways and chat with their neighbors along the streets of dust. An inferno of small children runs everywhere. The literate adults--estimated at between 50 and 60 per cent of the population--cannot read at night because there is no electricity. They cannot bathe; there is neither running water not toilets. So they perhaps light a candle to prolong the day, and the conversations, before going...
Cassavetes did not skip hot off the pop "victimization" bandwagon, as Kael claims. He's not a John Guillerman or a Mark Robson--the directors of The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, respectively--who each latched on to the season's big destruction bust, star-studding their creations for box office insurance. He just doesn't see films that...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice-president for administration, sees The Towering Inferno twice, and closes the top eight floors of Holyoke Center. Norman Mailer '43 awards himself the Nobel Prize for Literature. "I got tired of waiting," Mailer explains...