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...Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) that found a sepulchral undertone in martial music. Old masters like William Wyler (The Collector) and Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz) and Young Turks like Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) and Jerry Zucker (Ghost) called on Jarre to provide music that was subtle and looming, like a shiver in the shadows...
...adorned with a mirror and a majestic eagle feather. One night, three silent Nishi fishermen carrying torches pass our camp. We watch their silhouettes flicker and vanish into the steep night forest. They had lit torches to find their way, and to scare off tigers and evil spirits. I shiver, glad that we're on the river, and just passing through...
...next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head Against the Walls and Eyes Without a Face. Franju's images were so haunting they needed no assertive music to drive their points home; Jarre's scores were subtle and looming, the shiver in the shadows. By the time of their last film together, Judex in 1963, Jarre had won his first Oscar, for Lawrence...
...John Updike, James Joyce, and O. Henry, He told the audience that he chose her piece because it embodied the abstract quality that Joyce called the “whatness of a thing” which is the ability to give the reader “a pang, a shiver, a dip.” “When I was reading Kathleen’s story, it really jumped out at me. I thought to myself, ‘Now that’s a story,’” said Menand. “The story...
...easy to forecast a Darwinian winter, when we lash out or hunker down and shiver even when we sit near the fire. We read about people walking away from mortgages they can afford to pay, just because everyone else is doing it and responsibility seems like a sucker's game. Retailers report that gun sales are up, because the Democrats are back and crime is expected to rise and civilization as we know it to break down. Someone somewhere is stirring the tar and plucking the feathers for Lehman's Richard Fuld and Merrill's Stan O'Neal...