Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olin indictment reads a bit like a spy thriller. For almost 15 years, Washington has embargoed all sales of arms to South Africa. But, say federal prosecutors, a South African buyer, with Winchester's connivance, arranged for orders to be placed by agents in Spain, Greece, Austria and Mozambique. Prosecutors allege that some 3,200 Winchester rifles and 20 million rounds of ammunition were shipped under false invoices to South Africa between...
...MARQUIS DE SADE should be alive today. DePalma and DeSade would make a brilliant director-screenwriter team. In Brian DePalma's latest thriller, The Fury, Fiona Lewis plays a high-class, whorish British bitch-doctor whose titillating, condescending blue eyes make you want to punch her in the nose. Hitchcock would have let Cary Grant do just that--assuming that we in the audience are all voyeurs--and in his later days would have sent her to his legendary shower. DePalma, characteristically, goes further. In one of many representative sequences in The Fury, Robin (Andrew Stevens), Lewis's jealous lover...
...artist-figures to De Palma, that conceivably, in his dealings with Hollywood producers, he has wished on occasion he had psychokinetic powers. Be that as it may, The Fury can be enjoyed, by those prepared for some colorful blood spillage when the kids get riled, simply as an engrossing thriller...
...third-seeded Goolagong, displaying a complete assortment of her erratic but effective weapons, mixed those ingredients expertly yesterday afternoon, upending number-two seed, Evert, in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 thriller at B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena...
...criticism by citing a strong chorus. Maybe that is why the small opening-night audience applauded so enthusiastically--because, what the hell, those guys worked up quite a sweat, and they didn't drop a line. But "workmanlike" should be the last adjective that Anthony Shaffer's scintillating thriller-symphony evokes. A pity, but all too literally, this Sleuth substitutes "uh-lan" for elan...