Word: taming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the killer's and the victims' points of view, producing a continual, stomach-tightening sense of menace. There is surprisingly little blood in the movie, scarcely any nudity, and, considering the story it comes out of, and the opportunities available for flat-out ghoulishness, Carpenter has produced a tame and tactful film. However, most of Assault's quirky humor and antic allusiveness have been rubbed away, and Halloween, by comparison, is thinned by the expenditure of so much energy towards pure scariness. Carpenter flirts, here as in Assault, with some vaguely metaphysical notions about fate and death and evil...
...beliefs of Islam." Cowed by the Shi'ite leader's vehemence, the leftists called off the march, which would have violated a ban on demonstrations, and substituted the soccer-stadium rally. Though Tehran University is a center of leftist activism, the meeting turned out to be comparatively tame...
...granted by the tooth fairy. The wish, of course, is for high ratings. ABC research predicts an audience within six share points of Roots 1, but other network observers feel that Haley's comet could sputter slightly this time out. While the original Roots aired during a tame ratings period, Roots 11 appears at the peak of a Nielsen "sweeps" month, the all important period that determines advertising rates charged by network affiliate stations. NBC and CBS are spending $2 million each to combat Roots 11's premiere with first-run showings of, respectively, American Graffiti and Marathon...
...Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful bidders claimed their prizes, however, hotel employees dressed as commandos leaped...
...bottle bill and a graduated state income tax. Both lost. This time the stakes are higher. Homeowners pay too much in property taxes right now. To gently increase that burden will hurt not only homeowners but all of Massachusetts. It will make the "tax revolt" experienced so far seem tame by comparison. Approval of Question One is a necessity...