Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starring Julie Andrews, drew from anyone. Mrs. Crist acknowledged the ensuing uproar: "You can be against God; you can be against Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...
...craft and technique that has to be learned the hard way. Manhattan-born Eddie Anhalt began when he left Columbia University in his sophomore year. First he turned to film editing, shoestring documentaries, pulp fiction, and eventually grade-B pictures. "The film story could be anything I chose to invent," he recalls, "providing the star wore a dinner jacket at least once and was not obliged to run up or down stairs." Given a crack at a grade-A picture, Anhalt, with his first wife Edna, proved how good he could be; his first film, Panic in the Streets, starring...
...NEGRO COWBOYS, by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Despite endless writings about the Old West, scholarly historians and pulp novelists alike have ignored the fact that Negro cowboys rode in most of the drives from Texas to the cattle markets, and were respected, liked, and paid on a basis of wits and skill rather than color. An overdue addition to Americana...
...floor were two large pools of dried blood, and the walls were a smear of bloodstains. Heavy tracks of blood led into a second room, where police found a locked yellow trunk containing a hammer and the battered body of a man. The head was crushed to a pulp. An air ticket and passport thumbprint identified him as Herberts Cukurs, 65, a resident of São Paulo, Brazil...
...chaos, Writer Simpson has planted one or two ideas that swing. The Groom-kirbys, on the surface, behave like any middle-class family, and after a while their absurd rituals and lunatic discourse begin to seem alarmingly close to the norm. And as they blithely beat words to a pulp in their do-it-yourself Old Bailey, they somehow suggest that one way to solve the angst-ridden question of communication among men is to kill the language in self-defense...