Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Into this delicate if hostile world, man has burst as a stranger. "There is a new urgency for knowledge of the tundra," says Zoologist Frank Pitelka of Berkeley. "We now have a Texas-size threat to a land doubtfully able to take it." In the past two years, however, the major oil companies have compiled an excellent record. They have hired Arctic ecologists to help minimize the effects of their presence, even going so far as to develop hardy strains of grass to protect the tundra. Helicopters move whole drilling rigs to avoid ripping up the topsoil. Three companies have...
Thanks to Clement's superb sense of mood and control, the film skips along so briskly that the viewer forgets that two hours is a long time to spend watching an ancient contrivance complete with a menacing stranger, misleading extra corpses and mixed handbags of loot...
From a window in the Riviera resort of Hyeres, Mellie (Marlene Jobert) sees a stranger carrying a red airlines bag. He looks too creepy to be anything but a sex deviate; sure enough, he breaks into her home and rapes her. When he lingers on, she drops him with twin blasts from a double-barreled shotgun, throws his body into the sea and puts his watch and wallet in the furnace. She does not tell her husband Tony, a pilot who has the grace to be in flight while she is being pursued by a grinning, hard-eyed investigator named...
...graying, former college basketball star, the Rev. Louis Gigante is no stranger to conflict. The Roman Catholic priest once broke up a city council meeting to protest official indifference toward his impoverished, crime-ridden parish in the South Bronx. He has picketed FBI offices to object to, among other things, identification of his brother Vincent as a Mafia soldier. Now Gigante is engaged in another battle. With the grudging acquiescence of his archbishop, New York's "fighting priest" is running for Congress. "People tell you all the time that a priest should not be a candidate, and they...
Violence is no stranger to Lawrence, a community of 40,000 in Kansas' eastern-border country. A century ago, m the bitter Border War over whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free, guerrilla bands moved back and forth across the Kansas-Missouri line, pillaging at will...