Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's Benjamin Pierce, another scanner, who has managed to keep his sanity by expressing his scanner-related anxiety in his sculpture. The scenes at Pierce's exhibition and in his private studio are the film's most powerful moments. Expressionist figures contort and silently scream, communication more about the life of a scanner than the rest of the movie. Cronenberg understands that kind of horror. He can translate the internal and intangible into something real and terrifying...
...then takes over their thought. They remove their baseball jackets to put on the uniform of racial defense. "Yeah, they always put it on us", says one angry Black resident of the neighborhood when Marlene's brother is accused. Billy's fear of going to jail causes him to scream at Donna "who's gonna believe it? He's Black--I'm white. I got a record." It has all happened too many times before. Even the cop investigating the accident sees the police as actors with prescribed roles, "If we arrest the Black kid, we're racists...
...barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess, the cruelty that grows inside men and women tough enough to throw off oppression. Dogs of War admits that cruelty and confesses the crimes that accompany the fight for dignity. But it shows even as buildings blaze and babies scream, that war can be worthwhile as long as the cause is honest...
...consortium between the ice scream scoopers of Cahaly's has revealed the interesting fact that the HARVARD WOMEN's BASKETBALL TEAM remains their most ardent and consistent customers, coming in en masse virtually every evening for their usual ice cream fix, much like the hapless bar-frequenter who returns to his favorite watering hole for his usual stuff...
...Bruins can miss the playoffs, the Sox and Pats can fall flat and be out of it midway through the season. But throw four college hockey teams together before the inevitable packed house twice every February, and grown men cry, babies shriek, mature college students from prestigious Eastern institutions scream, swept up in the agony and ecstasy of an interfraternal encounter of the emotion-packed, frenzied kind. That's what The Beanpot will do, when Boston College plays Harvard in the finals, tonight...