Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alien is ugly in conception, but it achieves what it's after; Prophecy is an innocous shocker, dully made. Which is a surprise, because director John Frankheimer has made some wonderful thrillers; the least I expected was a little directorial style. Frankheimer keeps the killings relatively bloodless, but they're also flat and slightly rushed, lacking the witty camera set-ups or pungent, economical editing of a classic like Jaws. The baby mutants--popped little dragons--are rather cute, but they're straight out of Eraserhead. The big pig has no personality; at best, it suggests the nightmare...
Meanwhile, another shocker on prices provided further evidence that after just five months, the President's Stage II anti-inflation effort is flagging. In March wholesale prices zoomed 1%, or at a compounded, annual rate of 12.7%, the same as in February. Leading the price index was food, which jumped 1.2%, with particularly severe rises in beef and veal. So far this year, beef prices have increased at an annual rate of more than 100% and are expected to remain oppressively high for the rest of the year. The standard Administration forecast calls for inflation to moderate...
...Carter's energy message, another oil price shocker...
...perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from a sharp recession that in large part had been caused by the big jump in oil prices since 1973. In this atmosphere, the cartel's decision was a shocker...
...Hampshire at Walter Brown Arena last night was mere off-Broadway compared to the virtuoso performance of Hughes in the second period. The super-cool forward limboed by hapless defensemen for four goals in the second and turned a 3-0 score into a full-fledged 7-1 shocker with one stanza remaining (see story below...