Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Panther, the party's newspaper, reported last week that Trivers will write a book with Newton called "Deceit and Self-Deception," as well as articles for the Black Panther on the discriminatory use of I.Q. tests and other topics in sociobiology...
...Bowie and Eno are the only artists to use electronics in an imaginative, fertile way for music we can still call rock. Performers like Keith Emerson and Peter Gabriel know only how to shock and dazzle their audiences by using the synthesizer like a super-organ; disco and mainstream musicians have used electronics only to make the sounds of real instruments louder, more regular, or weirder...
Richard Reilly, an employee at Roller Power, added that skating over the cobblestones is like a zen art--you concentrate on spreading the vibrations throughout your entire body and let yourself go. Skaters use more muscles than swimmers, Reilly added...
...tone of Dawn is wildly different from Romero's earlier film, which was stark, claustrophobic, strewn with unintentional laughs, and genuinely funny. The gore and quick cutting help provide the scares, but the heavy use of shopping mall Muzak and color (the original was in black and white) buffer the horror and amplify the irony. It's also shockingly well-directed, blazingly edited (also by Romero), well-written (by Romero), and even well-acted (not by Romero)! The music editing, color, and jerky movements of the living dead combine to create a weird cinematic tour de force...
...much criticized use of gore in Dawn of the Dead actually points up a primary virtue of horror films. Everytime somebody blasts off the side of a zombie's head, audiences cheer. Why shouldn't they? What else can you do to flesh-eating zombies? Monster movies reduce every conflict to black vs. white, good vs. evil--that's the point. But they're fantasies--they invoke the supernatural; they don't pretend that that's how it is in real life, the way John Wayne or Clint Eastwood movies do. You can't rehabilitate the alien or the zombies...