Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amidst a seething abyss of turmoil, despair, defeat, defeat, and defeat, not all is black on the Yale lacrosse scene--or so this reporter has discovered, after boldly defying the administration ban by contacting his old school pal and lax team captain Buddy Bixford...
...scene: a dark alley not unlike the one that runs alongside the building where this reporter's old friend Buddy Bixford lives. A reporter--this reporter--crouches intrepidly, nakedly, in the darkness. Waiting...
...scene: The Yale varsity lax practice field somewhere in New Haven...
...family's house is burned to the ground, forcing them to move in with mother's grandparents. But no sooner are they there then Grandpa's comic zaniness changes the mood, as he interrupts breakfast on the veranda to shoot at a rat in his vegetable garden. The scene is absurd enough to make a Scrooge laugh, but it hangs loosely between serious scenes of death and destruction...
Running Man works because its action scenes work, but also because it catches its audience in a peculiar bind. The audience of the game show in Running Man represents a bloodthirsty society, a bunch of middle-class husbands and housewives and some little old ladies vehemently cheering on what amounts to a gladiator show. We laugh at this absurdity when members of the audience are given door prizes for choosing the stalkers, but in the very next scene we find ourselves cheering for some of the violence, too. When the studio audience stops cheering for the stalkers and starts cheering...