Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, it is depressing to watch an expensive, crafty movie that never soars beyond its cold desire to score the big bucks. Unlike Jaws, Alien does not use stylistic cunning to excite the audience; it just shovels on the mayhem. Unlike Star Wars, Alien has no affection for past movies of its genre; it just rips them off. Stripped of its futuristic setting and pretensions, this film is an oldtime B monster picture. Alien might just as well be about a huge scorpion loose in a haunted house, circa 1953. While the murder sequences are executed with all the realism...
...natural function, to be sure, says Stoller, but it is dominated by painful undercurrents from the past. Sex fantasies are not idle daydreams but carefully coded scripts by which the inner mind seeks to work out lingering problems from childhood. These scripts help determine whom the adult will be attracted to, how the sexual partner will be dealt with, and even what sexual positions are likely to be preferred. "Sexual excitement depends on a scenario," says Stoller. "The person to be aroused is the 'writer,' who has been at work on the story line since childhood." The writer...
With the defeat of the Rangers, four games to one, the Montreal Canadiens captured their fourth straight Stanley Cup, their 15th in the past quarter-century, their 22nd championship in a skein that began...
...quick and aggressive Rangers in the series' opening game, losing 4-1 in a rout so thorough that fans in the Montreal Forum could not believe their eyes. Nor could the Montreal players believe their ears. Ken Dryden, the league's top goaltender for the past three years, was booed out of the nets and replaced by Michel ("Bunny") Larocque. Defenseman Larry Robinson, a 6-ft. 3-in. version of the legendary Bobby Orr, suffered a special torture. He was confronted by tactics that Ranger Coach Fred Shero devised when directing the Philadelphia Flyers against...
...often be ferreted out of computer memories by anyone with access to a terminal. The curious can also enter busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient's current ailment, the snoops may pick up potentially damaging items from the past, such as a record of bouts with venereal disease, drug addiction or alcoholism, or a family history of mental illness or cancer. Easily copied by duplicating machine and then spread, this sensitive information may eventually appear on the desks of credit and loan officers, personnel chiefs or even college admissions...