Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After perfunctory haggling, we pile into a van for the next leg of the trip to El Arish. The tarmac has long ago been chewed up by Israeli armor. It leads to a moonscape of sand dunes that over the centuries has been traversed by Pharaonic armies, Roman legions, Crusaders and even Napoleon's troops. For vast stretches the only signs of life are camels and goats foraging for shrubs...
...color-field, minimalism and so on. By 1975 all the isms were wasms. The '70s were pluralistic; every kind of art suddenly found room to coexist. The idea of a "mainstream," beloved of formalist criticism in the '60s, vanished into the sand: "At last the Dodo said, 'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.' " And although the decade produced its meed of good art, some very interesting indeed, the most striking thing to happen was agreement on a level below the art itself: that modernism, which had been the cultural bedrock of Europe and America...
...says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures.) She was ridiculous in the idiotic desert island saga Blue Lagoon, possibly because she felt ridiculous; she did a lot of her acting while walking in a trench cut in the sand so that Co-Star Chris Atkins, 18, could appear to be taller than...
...film, the monster strikes and sheer predictibility saps any terror from the scenes as a typical friendly middle-aged lady, a scruffy little dog, and a blond bikini'd teen are all sucked in, or beheaded, or incur "massive damage to ... once pretty legs," at the hands of the sand creature...
...quickly ties of this succession of typically helpless victims. But the movie does take a surprising tack away from the obvious horror movie devices--an aggressor gets it. A rapist, in the process of attacking a woman, lies on the sand for a split-second too long and suddenly rolls over in blood, writhing in pain--the monster has struck, and this time where it counts...