Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calvin Coffey was working the day shift out of Walpole State Prison yesterday. 10:55 a.m.--Coffey was helping install a new pipe fixture at the lab construction site. The telephone tolled from the next room. Coffey raced to get it. "Pulp and paper lab, Coffey speaking...
...legit and the reason he was at Walpole was not one of just desserts and all that but rather as a requirement for his degree. "I work here as part of the co-op program at N.U.I major in mechanical engineering, so they put me out here in the pulp and paper lab project...
...himself both as Henry James and Henny Youngman. James, the 19th century novelist with a mind like a surgical-steel tweezers, revealed the delicate attachments between social conventions and motivation. Youngman, a basic Jewish stand-up comic, is a hammer-and-tongs man who reduces his subjects to recognizable pulp...
...words of its hero-author Mickey King, who thoughtfully provides the narration, Pulp is a record of "that bizarre adventure that put five people in the cemetery and ruled me out as a customer for laxatives." It is also an absolutely smashing movie...
...loving tribute to it. In Hodges' first film, Get Carter (1971), he carried his absorption in the thriller close to outright imitation. For all its brutal energy, the movie was too heavily reminiscent of John Boorman's Point Blank. Hodges has not only got his distance in Pulp; he has also found a style and voice of his own. He is constantly, ebulliently inventive, whether in the scrupulously outrageous dialogue ("I expected the place to be crawling with cops, like maggots in a Camembert") or in one of the many dazzling visual jokes, like a group of Italian...