Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tree-lined fairway of the 18th hole at Stow Acres isn't exactly the same as Magnolia land at Augusta National, but when freshman Jim Dales floated his approach to within seven feet of the flagstick, Harvard had the match sewn...
...grim combination of suspicion, fear and horror hangs over the trim, tree-shaded suburban townships of Oakland County, Mich., northwest of Detroit. For the seventh time in 14 months, a child has been abducted, then killed...
...challenged the law. Wood that lives and breathes, that squeaks and cracks in the beams of his house, that must be sacrificially burnt in the shape of old furniture that will not sell. Wood stands as a monument in the countryside, whether in the form of a massive tree or in tiny specks of black charcoal. Pierre loves it, is fascinated by the intricacies of its design, the grain that is smooth to the touch, in a way that he never has been by a woman's body. He broods over a glass of fizzling alka-seltzer about...
EVEN MORE EVOCATIVE are those progressions of shots with which Goretta establishes the rhythms of the film. The increasing tempo of excitement is matched by tighter, more frequent cutting. Scenes alternate from light to dark. A solitary tree stands still in a haunting though brightly lit field. Bits of broken chairs, marred by flame, are discerned in the warm earth-tones of a neglected garbage heap. A light flashes on a bank window. Nelly stands across the street by a bicycle. When Pierre dashes out we realize the two have become accomplices...
With some of her new characters -like Sister Boogie Woman-the possession seems complete. Sister Boogie Woman is a Southern evangelist, and when she's got the boogie she shakes like a palm tree in a hurricane. What's boogie? Let her tell...