Word: strangerness
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...probably apocryphal, but they say that the original version of The Postman Always Rings Twice inspired Camus to write The Stranger. It's pretty difficult to imagine old Albert sitting in a movie theater, watching a movie that oozes of sex and murder, and coming up with the notion of nobility in the face of the Abyss. It's easier to picture Mickey Spillane sitting there with a bunch of his corporate-thugs and coming up with the idea for a whole series of pulp thrillers. Maybe there's some meaning lurking in the fact that we were gushing over...
...stranger set of circumstances called her older brother out of his own premature retirement. When the NBA's Dallas Mavericks began to show interest in him, the UCLA forward advised the expansion team officials that he was not interested in playing professionally but was intent on going to law school. Convinced that Vandeweghe was their man, the Mavericks accepted the challenge, drafting him in the first round...
Extremities by William Mastrosimone. This is an explosive melodrama about a would-be rape and the woman's stark revenge. Alone in a New Jersey farmhouse, Marjorie (Ellen Barber) is accosted by an intruder, Raul (Danton Stone). At first, the jaunty stranger claims to be looking for a man who owes him money. But after some verbal sparring, he wrenches her to the floor by her hair and clamps a pillow to her face. Using the threat of suffocation, Raul systematically degrades Marjorie: "Touch my hair. My mouth. My neck . . . Now touch me down there and say you wanna...
When he answered a knock on his door at 8:30 p.m., a stranger asked directions then shot him twice in the head. Two suspects have been arrested...
...walking alone on a deserted street late at night. Suddenly a stranger steps from the shadows and jabs a sharp object in your ribs. "Gimme your wallet," he demands...