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...thrillers, having done films of cultish followings such as Red Rock West, The Last Seduction and Unforgettable. Therefore, his direction does not disappoint. Dahl establishes an ominous atmosphere using a variety of unique color and light. Note that a painting of a stormy sea fills a room with its sickish green hue and the glow of fluorescent bulbs outside a motel illuminate a suspenseful scene in red. Furthermore, Dahl savors situations in which his audience knows more about a tense situation than his heroes and heroine do. Viewers are aware of the villainous trucker’s traps. Suspense...

Author: By Andrew D. Goulet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Joyride Runs on Fumes | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Part way up we came to a high cliff and in its face were niches . . . and in some of them we found balls of a glistening substance looking like pieces of variegated candy . . . it was evidently food of some sort, and we found it sweet but sickish, and those who were hungry, making a good meal of it, were a little troubled with nausea afterwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature's Time Capsules | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino and Stalinabad and Stalinogrosk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: The Heart Stops Beating | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...vice president and comptroller of I. T. & T. Chinlund's immediate job will be to compete more aggressively with big, hungry Western Union. But the long and more complicated end of his assignment is negotiating with Western Union, investors, labor and Washington for a merger of the two sickish systems into one with a better chance of making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Parceled Postal | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Milton Snavely Hershey stood on the steps of his new office building in Hershey, Pa. one day last week and watched the violent vanguard of the times come swirling into his candy Utopia. Thirty-four years ago there was nothing but a cornfield where he stood. Now the sickish-sweet smell of the world's biggest chocolate factory lay heavy on the surrounding countryside. Ever since the factory had begun to make big money, abstemious Founder Hershey had poured it out to make his people happy. Besides giving most of his corporation's common stock to endow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Upheaval in Utopia | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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