Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are, thankfully, some notable exceptions in Gods and Monsters, namely Whale's dreams and flashbacks. The former have him in his own movies, playing the Doctor Frankenstein to Boone's Monster and vice versa. Shot in retrospective monochrome, the film here manages to capture the beauty of Whale's movies without distracting the viewer from the matter at hand--Whale and Boone's increasingly complex relationship. Similarly, the flashbacks to the war, and to Whale's wistful memories of "love in the foxholes," are masterfully done. Alas, these all have the ulterior motive of emphasizing the film's already...
...days when a director could make a movie out of a Mary Shelley novel--not for the prestige granted to recent film adaptations of Henry James, but for the quality of a swift story, of one that engages intellectually, emotionally and viscerally. And for the spectacle of a monster given life by the sheer genius of a scientist, as movies were once engendered by directors like James Whale...
This morning, Mark's wife Karolyn, who has not missed an opening day in years, was stationed up on the mountain and allowed three spike-horned bucks, each bigger than the one before, to pass unharmed. The fifth or sixth was bound to be a monster, she thought. But the trend ended with Buck 3. The guys got nothing either. No one seemed to mind, and there was much teasing of Karolyn for taking a cell phone up the mountain along with her Winchester...
...useful for understanding literature has been bent out of shape, blown full of hot air and basically stretched to such a degree that it has ceased to have any meaning at all. The real postmodern dilemma isn't figuring out how to fight off some sort of vague monster that's threatening our ability to think, write and learn. It's figuring out what the word means in the first place and grappling with its significance. If, ultimately, the term ceases to mean anything to us, we should be free to toss it out of our lexicon altogether...
Located in the heart of Kenmore Square, and only 500 feet away from the mouth of the daunting Green Monster, the colossal Citgo sign brings us back to the dawning age of the motor vehicle and represents one of the oldest art deco inspired ad campaigns in the United States. Measuring 60 square feet in area, the garish pulsating advertisement sits in the Boston skyline where it is admired up to 20 miles away. "It's the God of B.U.!" exclaims an exuberant B.U. sophomore. "It's like what we are known for. I'm proud to call it mine...