Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month retrospective of the 18 films Hitchcock directed for TV. Even on the fashion pages: Couturier Paul Monroe has unveiled a new line of "Hitchcock dresses," including a Rope T shirt, with its coiling cord, and a Psycho frock that mimics a certain shower curtain in the Bates motel...
Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through...
Therein lies the reason why I'm not huddling in some miserable little motel near St. Lawrence University as the Larries and their nearby rivals at Clarkson College prepare to pummel the visiting Harvard hockey team tonight and tomorrow night...
...Homicide Detective David Calhoun, it seemed at first like a rock-solid case. A minister and his two children had been walking by a Houston motel last month when they saw three men spill out of one of the rooms. Two of them were shooting the other while he begged for mercy. The churchman saw the murderers clearly and Calhoun knew that he was going to make a "super witness." But then the minister was paid a visit by two men, once at his home and again outside Houston police headquarters on the day he was to identify one captured...
...crime had been nightmarishly brutal: a six-hour gang rape in an Anderson, S.C., motel room by three men, after which the 80-lb. woman victim required four pints of blood and five days of hospitalization. The rapists had pleaded guilty in the hope that as first offenders, they would receive a lenient sentence from Judge C. Victor Pyle. "The defendants," intoned Pyle, "shall be confined to the custody of the South Carolina department of corrections for a period of 30 years." That was the maximum. The real jolt came when the judge added that he would suspend the sentence...