Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remain one of the stingiest teams in the nation when their opponents have the ball. Near the top of the country's teams in defensing the rush, second in the ECAC (behind Navy) in scoring defense and always best with their backs against the wall, the men of the "Monster" defense, as their co-ordinator, Buddy Amendola, says, "likes to make things happen...
Unlike every other city in the country, company officials reasoned, Cambridge was full of people who would understand that their recombinant DNA development facility was not a monster plant...
...southern border of New Mexico and just over 100 miles from Alamogordo, the site lies between two jagged mountain ranges in a valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne's poetry in a volume that...
...ELEPHANT MAN is a monster movie. It combines drawing-room genteelness and austerity with the elements of the classic 1930's horror films: the shadowy black-and-white photography; the slow fade-outs and dissolves; the eerie music; the mad scientist; the sensitive, hideous monster, misunderstood and abused by society, tortured by the humanity within him. Director David Lynch artfully manipulates these components--evading scariness and melodrama, while adding historical perspective and social commentary--to tell the true story of a tormented soul searching for dignity and compassion. Lynch's film is what Frankenstein should have been, what The Hunchback...
Like Frankenstein's creation and Quasimodo, or any monster worth his salt, Merrick is doomed. But there are no rampaging townspeople screaming for the creature's blood, no corny "'Twas beauty killed the beast" tag line. Elephant Man ends in sadness, but also on a peculiar, vaguely cathartic note. Lynch has made the ultimate monster movie, dark, bizarre, and oddly affecting...