Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasional ensemble roughness. Its repertory is impressively varied, including several company-created works by Joffrey and Gerald Arpino that cover the field from delicate, classic grace (Viva Vivaldi, Pas des Déesses) to revivals of such historic works as Kurt Jooss's famous old antiwar shocker The Green Table...
...Kampf. At the end we loved him . . . With the killers of the world at our throats, the hordes from the East and West, the capitalists and the Communists, the bombers of cities, the murderers of our children, with bullets in our guts we loved him." Then comes the big shocker: "People of Israel," he declares, "if he had chosen you-if he had chosen YOU-YOU also would have followed where...
Everyone to his own religion, Levin seems to say, and worship of the Devil is one. Ultimately, there are two tests for any thriller or piece of horror fiction: 1) does the author play fair, yet come up with a shocker of a denouement? and 2) is the reader's willing suspension of disbelief rewarded with a final close-the-book aspiration of relief as he returns to his own world? Author Levin bats fifty-fifty. On the one hand, the ending of Rosemary's Baby, though inevitable, is flat; on the other hand, it is as unsettling...
DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...
DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail...