Word: junks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction of junk and wire stood by a fire hydrant, looking ominously out on Garden Street, thrown out by the inhabitants of the nearest house after it was abandoned by creator Matt Sargent...
...people didn't like 'Zdzblo' because it was made of junk, but I liked it," Sargent said yesterday...
...live out their remaining years together, just as they had always expected. She finds the infidelity hard to bear, but not as shattering as her husband's lethargic confession that he has renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides to commit suicide...
...somehow, the mistaken notion has taken root, among both critics and the general public, that the private lives of the glitterati of the entertainment industry are off-limits, at least in terms of the respectable press. We're not counting National Enquirer junk--or the apologia, enjoyable as it often is, that comes out of p.r. magazines like People or Rolling Stone. We're talking serious, nuts and bolts journalism, the kind that will look, say, at the life of a John Belushi with the toughness with which a seasoned political writer will look at Richard Nixon. Perhaps because...
...Howling (1981), and his profligately imaginative episode of last year's Twilight Zone: The Movie are both energized by this sly schizophrenia. In Twilight Zone, the smile becomes a rictus as a child forces adults to live inside a cartoon world of jack-in-the-box monsters and junk food. In a sense, then, Gremlins is Dante's breakthrough film. It delivers both gore and guffaws, and, more impressively, blends the two moods to create this season's funkiest fable. Originally, Dante's gremlins were neither intelligent nor impishly charming. "They liked to eat," he says...