Word: pulped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Onscreen, John Travolta had just raised an Adrenalin-filled hypodermic needle above the comatose body of Uma Thurman and, with desperate force, plunged it straight into her heart. In the audience at New York City's Lincoln Center, where Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was being shown, a young man watched this scene and passed out. "Is there a doctor in the house?" someone actually asked. The film was stopped for nine anxious minutes before the announcement came: "The victim is just fine...
...moviegoer went so far as to call "Pulp Fiction" the best movie she had ever seen...
Quentin Tarantino's eagerly-awaited film "Pulp Fiction" made its nationwide collegiate debut last night at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...right, just because a film is small, that doesn't guarantee it's good. Like Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary is a graduate of clerking in video stores -- the new film school. But Avary, who worked with Tarantino on True Romance and Pulp Fiction, has not yet found his voice, at least to judge from Killing Zoe, a noisy heist film with Eric Stoltz as the blase American in Paris...
Friedman traces contemporary zines to two sources. One route passes through the highbrow beat poetry of the 1940s and '50s that, because of its small audience, perfected the art of producing the small-run, beautifully crafted publications called chapbooks. The other follows the science-fiction press back to its pulp roots in the late '30s when fans of this literary genre circulated rough, mimeographed copies of their own voluminous stories, commentary and manifestos...