Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect of this looniness is to drive you to the fallout shelter. The message is bleak--there is no hope for society, it is hopelessly insane, skewed. The medium is numbing--the director, Alex Cox, has spliced together a series of disjointed scenes into a rambling stream-of-consciousness denunciation of American society. The utter weirdness of society, the hopelessness of it all is insistently driven home to us in scene after scene, whether we're watching Otto shovel down his dinner from a can marked simply "Food," or watching Otto's punk friend Duke die after a shoot...
...This bill must be reconciled with the Senate version, which would establish a date several years earlier. According to John Fife, a leader in the sanctuary movement, this legislation would single out those people who do not qualify under the new guidelines - and also those who offer them shelter. "The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service," he believes, will "become much more punitive toward refugees and sanctuary workers alike." What is even more disturbing about these bills, according to Fife and his colleagues, is that they do not make moral distinctions. Notes Brother Philip of Weston Priory in Weston, Vt., which...
...some liked them not at all; they didn't think I knew what I was doing." The five parts of the film deal first with Demetrios's father's sculpture, then a man talking to his dog, then a woman who goes into a fall-out shelter to seek refuge from nuclear war only to emerge 10 years later to discover it did not occur, a gang leader talking to the camera and finally a woman director shooting her lover about whom she has just made a film. The film within the film contains the sex scene. Admits Demetrios: "some...
...also no doubt that Jeff, who was considerably smaller than her, was legitimately afraid when she attacked him. "Suzy almost raped Jeffy twice," Gary recalls with a laugh. "Once she had him pinned and started taking off his shirt, and he came running up to our room for shelter." His fear would prove warranted late in the year when she accidentally broke...
Harvard Square in the thirties compared with its present incarnation resembled a country crossroad. The streetcars still clanged along Massachusetts Avenue, and the newsboys under the shelter of the kiosk leading into the subway sang out the list of newspapers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, the Evening American, the Evening Transcript and the Boston AD-VA-TISA, like an incantation. On the first warm days of spring there would be the usual "spring riots" on the part of high-spirited undergraduates, who threw rolls of toilet paper out the windows of their ancient dormitories in the Yard, or snake...