Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...
...show off both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...
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...