Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guessed it. Doggie Adventure (price: $14.95) is a videocassette designed to relieve canine boredom when a dog is left home alone. Says Harley Toberman, the film's creator: "I always knew that dogs watched TV, but usually there's nothing worthwhile for them to watch." Sometimes man and beast face a similar dilemma...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (CBS, Dec. 12, 9 p.m. EST). This literate fantasy series about a sensitive monster living beneath the streets of New York City was scuttled by low ratings. But it is back with a twist: the eponymous beauty, played by Linda Hamilton, is kidnaped and killed. Anyone got a new title...
Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...
...begins absurdly in the fifth act: after 15 seconds, Hamlet and the others lie dying, the stage is covered with blood and debris. For many years one may have lived on top of the San Andreas fault and made doomy jokes about it; it is like having a violent beast in the basement, knowing that one day it may burst up through the living-room floor. But there is no preparation for the moment. Only certain animals feel premonitory vibrations undetectable to humans. They grow skittish. Horses glare with a wild panicked...
...certainties vanish. The earth liquefies. It becomes as wild as surf. The solid is abruptly fluid. Normally, earth is the refuge, the stability, the foundation of things. The earth should be alive only to grow vegetables and flowers. Now the earth itself becomes a beast, all teeth and gashes and sudden topplings. Reality has turned molten and violent...