Word: spider
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...most famous sermon ever preached in America was Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," which compared the sinner's plight to "a spider or loathesome insect" held over a fire. When Edwards preached, all New England shook in its boots. But the so-called Golden Age of Preaching did not come until the 19th century, with stemwinders like Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn and Phillips Brooks of Boston. Clyde Fant of the First Baptist Church in Richardson, Texas, a former homiletics teacher, notes that even then folks found fault with the state...
...life. Yet Piers Paul Read, 38, puts a lot of his native English on this familiar pitch. He knows, as most chroniclers of Me Decade shenanigans do not, that private acts have public consequences; in the great tradition of British novelists, he draws society as a delicate, vast spider web, tuned to vibrate at the lightest footfall or breath of scandal. In addition, Read is a self-described "serious Catholic" and scales this novel to dimensions familiar to readers of Graham Greene: his hero's quest for fulfillment progresses not only as an item of gossip...
...Pennock; 23. Ed Stroud; 24. Benny Kauff; 25. Walter Maranville; 26. Bobby Thomson; 27. Orlando Cepeda; 28. Lou Novikoff; 29. Frank Howard; 30. Clint Courtney; 31. Gray Eagle; 32. The Silver Fox; 33. The Peerless Leader; 34. Old Reliable; 35. Hoot; 36. Moonman; 37. Gates; 38. Hondo Hurricane; 39. Spider; 40. Mighty Mite; 41. Dixie and Harry Walker; 42. Carlos and Lee May; 43. Christy and Henry Mathewson; 44. Stupid question--too many to list, all with any correct answers got fullcredit; 45. Tommie Aaron and Cloyd Boyer; 46. Hector, Jose and Cirilio; 47. Jim and Graig; 48. Ron, Hank...
With all of that, there is doubtless enough praise left over for Barrie himself, who delivered Peter Pan 75 years ago. His little tale for children is as thin as a spider web, but it has proved to be just as strong. -Gerald Clarke
Badham obviously knows that horror movies are only fun when they run the risk of being silly. So his camera tracks all over the place, with insects and spider webs and skeletons in the foreground, and massive, Gothic, bat-like sets or magical, panoramic English cliffs and countrysides in the background. The bulk of the action occurs inbetween, and Badham reaches it by cutting rapidly or tracking or literally walking up to it, camera jiggling subjectively. Very little happens outside the frame, so we rarely worry about what we can't see, only about how vivid and nauseating what...