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Modern horror movies also play on the fears of the society that produces them, King said. "I don't think its any coincidence that the first of radioactive movies should come out of Japan," he said referring to Godzilla, a film whose monster was awakened by radioactive bomb tests...
...President Carter's National Security Council, and on Wall Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get carried away with brand names, as when he notes that a character was able to fall asleep on a plane "despite a monster roar from the four Rolls-Royce SNECMA Olympus 593 jet engines." But he manages to keep his plot shifting as fast as the ticks in the price of a takeover stock...
...both his life and his death, Bundy demonstrated the fragility of our society and our self-image. As Bundy told The New York Times in 1986, "if anyone considers me a monster that's just something they'll have to confront in themselves. For people to want to condemn someone, to dehumanize someone like me is a very popular and effective and understandable way of dealing with a fear and a threat that is incomprehensible...
...most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster in the closet," says Richard Jones, a Connecticut attorney who represents mortgage lenders. "People's reaction is visceral. It has a very chilling effect...
...King Kong. Like his predecessor, this jolly green giant is captured in Africa and packed off to the U.S. There he delights the gaping crowds by playing the trumpet and baseball. Alas, he also disrupts traffic and incurs the wrath of policemen. Here ends the similarity of ape and monster. William Joyce's plot and pictures provide laughter, thrills and, most important, a happy ending. Fair enough. Kong, after all, was a tragic figure; Bob is a comic creature. It was beauty killed the beast; it is whimsy keeps the reptile alive...