Word: slit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gregory Peck has gleefully transformed himself into a hulking, slit-eyed, "embodiment of evil." He isn't as awful as you'd expect--he tries hard and he can't help the screenplay, but as an actor he tends to be as stolid and uninspired as this movie. You could, in fact, label The Boys from Brazil "the Gregory Peck of thrillers." But there are compensations...
...Curves and limbs crawl sinuously out from long, slit-up skirts and blousy, waist-less layers...
Weak arms tucking a three-month-old child Sixteen and hunched half over the bed and half over the love magazine spread on the low table She chews then moves belly first. shifting her curlers Blowing the smoke from her lungs as the morning shudders through the caked slit by the door...
...except that it epitomizes everything wrong with most movie thrillers these days: they have become clinical. Directors like Michael Crichton and William Friedkin put their audiences under the scalpel, and so far audiences have responded enthusiastically. Even good movies like Marathon Man are so crammed with sliced hands and slit throats that they're hard to watch, and films have to be gorier and gorier now to make an impression. It's part of a de-sensitizing, or perhaps, in the case of Coma, an anesthetizing of the audience. No wonder audiences are bored with those wonderful Val Lewton films...
Skirts and dresses can be flowing or straight and slit; hem lines are generally shorter, falling just under the knee or to midcalf, but hardly ever to the ground. Heels are high and narrow...