Word: re-enactment
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...alike throng to the movies, where filmdom's masterminds charitably make room for a nice, big torture scene" in color . . . After all, the young punks share in our 3% annual rise in productivity and have more cars, more money, more switchknives, and more idle time to read and re-enact the immortal works of Mickey Spillane...
...gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea that other producers might profitably take up: that one good way to recapture the excitement of history-which is exciting essentially because it really happened-is to re-enact the event as much as possible in the way it originally happened...
...dormitories to stage a mass invasion of Sorority Row. They knocked down one house mother, swarmed up ladders and pillars, smashed windows, made off with 250 souvenir panties, girdles and brassieres. Next night, armed with pots of paint to daub their victims, they decided to re-enact the Rape of the Sabines, in the process thoroughly doused Dean Theos J. Thompson. "This has got to stop!" cried the dean. It did-after $700 worth of damage...
...re-enact at the vestry-glass
...moviemaking. To tell the story of German prisoners of war who worked as U.S. spies, Director Anatole (The Snake Pit) Litvak goes the semi-documentary technique one better: he uses locations in 16 German cities and towns not merely as backgrounds but as living sets to re-enact the chaos of a battered, squalid Germany in the critical winter of 1945. The canvas is broad, the detail meticulous, the effect overwhelmingly real...