Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those tired of the great white shark, or behind in their English 70 reading, John Huston's Moby Dick, with wooden Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, continues at the Orson Welles. The footage of whaling is impressive, and the movie sticks close to Melville's opus. --Jeff Flanders...
Then came CIA disillusionment, city crime and violence, and a scary shark. The cover photograph of the First Family [July 28] is as refreshing as a clear, cool, unpolluted mountain stream...
...tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted to know was whether I was coming back for their therapy sessions...
...tell that Dreyfuss and Spielberg were right in synch because the balance between tension and release--a crucial asset to horror movies--is what the director does really well. Unlike The Exorcist, which constantly kept your stomach gnarled waiting for what atrocity you would be subjected to next, shark attacks in Jaws are well spaced until the end when Spielberg turns it on full force, Swooping you up and whooshing you down, it's the fun of a fishy roller coaster ride. Spielberg is better at the slow thrills--that sort of slither up on you and let you fall...
...clearly Spielberg meant the film to be good clean fun, and apparently that's how a lot of people are taking it. WRKO radio is advertising a name-that-song contest which offers the grand prize of a shark hunt; a trip to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, two tickets to Jaws and a "shark repellent kit"--a baseball bat. Some...