Word: monsterization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found the city's turmoil fascinating. The ghetto brought the deficiencies to light, forcing the school systems to spill the long-guarded achievement tests. But as the list of problems lengthened, Cambridge academics found, in Thomas's words, "a growing resonance with city problems--a fascination with the ungainly monster...
There is one other: a strange creature, half monster and half man; with a clown's white face, dressed in a rubber coverall, listed in the program as a "schmurz...
Then with the game out of reach, in the seventh inning, second baseman Mike Andrews lined a home run into the screen atop the Green Monster...
...youths vaulted their barricade to meet the understanding idol. Then there was another pair from right, greeting Joe LaHoud (welcoming the rookie to Fenway no doubt), shaking with Reggie Smith (who gave them a friendly pat with his glove) and then approaching the altar in front of the Green Monster...
...intellectual shocker its creators no doubt intended, Planet of the Apes is a joke. But the joke is funny enough often enough to sustain the picture through a series of embarrassing lapses in logic, some third-rate color photography, and sets worthy of the more outlandish oriental monster movies. Viewed with tolerance, and press passes, Planet of the Apes can be appreciated alternately as low comedy, high adventure and, at moments, serious science fiction. In other words...