Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan, where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction of Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
...precision and penetrating power of laser beams have, as predicted, given them entree to the operating room, where they can cut into human and animal tissue as delicately as a finely honed scalpel. Even better, the laser knife does not draw blood. Its searing but highly localized heat cauterizes capillaries and other blood vessels as they are severed. Like ordinary light, laser beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction by Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water; Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...
Polanski's overrated Knife in the Water was at least well-paced and slick, exuding an unpretentious formalism we happily like to associate with good committed art. Since then, the money increased, Hollywood beckoned, Polanski learned English, and his films have apparently fallen into every cinematic pitfall readily available. Repulsion revelled in cheap lens distortion and sound effects, and The Fearless Vampire Killers was lousy with back-drops painted in poorly processed Metrocolor...
...Some of my fellow N.R.A. members might change their minds about our frightfully inadequate gun laws if they spent a few days watching the "weekend warriors" being brought into Temple's accident dispensary, also known as the Tioga Knife and Gun Club. If you really want to see the lead fly, go to the Poconos on the opening day of deer season; it makes the Tet offensive look like kid stuff...