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...stomach. He flopped to the floor vomiting his lungs out, his face gradually turning purple.") On the last page, he corrals the villain, a gorgeous blond he'd been in love with. and plugs her with a .45. Then comes one of the most pungent windups in pulp...
...movies, weren't considered the equals of "serious" novelists. They wrote genre fiction. The New Yorker critic (and novelist) Edmund Wilson could find "the boys in the back room" lacking. Then came another irony. Later generations of critics threw off their pretensions and mined the gritty glories of pulp fiction; they cogently argued that Hammett and Chandler, and Thompson and David Goodis and others, were worth cherishing (and that writers like Wilson, who's forgotten today as a novelist, weren't.) Yet in this rush to validate the pulps, Spillane was curiously forgotten - a prophet without honor. But with profit...
...Toro calls Pan's Labyrinth a child's dark fantasy for adults. Certainly it's not for children. Even the grown-up audience in Cannes was jolted by the Captain's acts of violence towards others (he shoots a suspect in cold blood after smashing his face to pulp with a broken bottle) and himself. The scene in which, after having his own cheek cut open, he sutures a pretty severe gash in his mouth, earned the audience's applause...
...Strawjet takes a renewable and universally available resource - straw - and turns it into low-cost building material that will provide farmers with extra income and eliminate the need for deforestation. Another eco-friendly detail: instead of using plastic resin, the tractor-size farming implement binds straw together using paper pulp, clay and cement...
...music video. Maybe it’s the unnervingly smooth and artificial cinematography. Maybe it’s the compulsive editing. Maybe it’s the way the song samples Dick Dale’s “Misirlou”—the “Pulp Fiction” theme—which just happened to appear in a Nissan Maxima commercial. Of course, it could also be the way Honda Civics are both conspicuously displayed and centrally framed. Coincidentally, both the Civic Hybrid website and the Black Eyed Peas’ website prominently advertise...