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At its core, Arachnophobia is a film about the effects of an extraordinary phenomenon on a small American town. The theme is clearly reminiscent of Spielberg's Jaws, Close Encounters of a Third Kind, E.T., and even further back, of Hitchcock's The Birds. Like all those films, Arachnophobia tells...
Arachnophobia is given extra dimension by borrowing yet another technique made famous by Hitchcock. In Psycho and Rebecca, Hitchcock explored the results of placing psychologically-burdened characters under severe stress, forcing them to confront their worst fears. Jennings' extreme fear of spiders effectively establishes the link with the audience which...
On the other hand, John Goodman (Roseanne) portrays local exterminator Delbert McClintock as a much lighter character. McClintock has no desire to study the vermin, nor does he fear them; he simply revels in destroying them. The absurd pride with which this cross between Rambo and a Beverly Hillbilly goes...
DADE COUNTY, FLA. During the past three years, 139 of Dade County's 263 schools have voted to join the school-based-management movement spearheaded by former superintendent Fernandez. William Jennings Bryan Elementary School, which embraced the concept in 1987, is an example of a school in mid- metamorphosis, experimenting...
No small subjects for Arthur Hailey. Others may write about a double room or a 747; he takes on the entire Hotel and Airport. In his tenth novel, Hailey, 70, offers every sound bite of The Evening News (Doubleday; 564 pages; $21.95), plus executive-suite skirmishes between an anchorman and...