Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schlock shock is a proliferating film subspecies: the horror flick that will do anything, show anything, to churn a stomach and raise some neck hair. The trend started several years back with Night of the Living Dead, wherein marauding zombies dined on freshly slain humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy...
...Alive is the latest example of schlock shock. The "it" that is alive is a genetic monstrosity, born to a couple of Los Angeles parents (John Ryan, Shar on Farrell), which comes into the world with fangs, claws and a strong homicidal impulse. It wreaks all kinds of havoc, and is ultimately done in just be fore the news that a similar monstrosity has been born in Seattle...
...Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace of Corots. The thieves, said Director Mercedes Garberi, "displayed a very refined taste." Giovanni Spadolini, Italy's Minister of the Cultural Patrimony, was already in shock from the theft of two Piero della Francescas and a Raphael from Urbino twelve days before. Said he: "This theft sounds an ultimate alarm against the state of neglect and abandon in which both the national and local museums of this country find themselves...
...Present Shock. That all ended, however, after Reformer Arnold Miller, running on a platform of union democracy, beat Boyle in 1972 and appointed his press secretary, Don Stillman, 29, a Columbia University School of Journalism graduate, to the Journal's editorship. A stocky, plain-spoken journalist with a passion for fair reporting, Stillman rushed the Journal through present shock. He improved the layout, introduced four-color covers, hired a staff photographer whose job included investigative work, and stopped running the magazine as a presidential patsy. "But the No. 1 change," explained Stillman, "is that we place our emphasis...
...what did shock some of the undergraduates was the complicated masters decision to divide up Canaday Hall...