Word: zit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Animal House: Speaking of which.... If you can stand a theater full of basically grievous-type people constantly yelling "Toga, Toga," laughing hysterically at the word zit, and generally making complete asses of themselves, well, then you go to it. This movie actually has some very funny moments in it, and John Beluchi is a terrific commedian--but beware--for every good joke there are at least five sophomoric oldies that'll make you cringe. The move just never quite gets it together; it sort of piddles to a conclusion. The only possible reason for seeing this movie...
...obsessive. It produces not images but model people-androids without the electronic guts. Each plastic scalp is the sum of myriad transplants; thousands of strands of fuzz are pricked into the cold, immobile forearm; the pigment on the skin replicates flesh down to the very last pore, zit, shaving nick and burst vein, while every T shirt and pair of overalls displays exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against...