Word: cravings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frail men who cannot fight back. The murderers shoot or stab from behind, often leaving their victims in agony. They chortle over each attack, showing remorse only when they fail to kill. Then their eyes fill with tears. The more blood they shed, the more they seem to crave. One youth is picked up on the street, taken back to the loft and butchered piece by piece. The remains are trussed up like a frozen turkey and thrown into the sea. Their new-found religion forbids the recruits to rob or rape their victims, but that scarcely deters them...
...misogynistic when it appeared in 1974. Handkerchiefs may provoke a similar response from literal-minded viewers. Like Going Places, it focuses on two libidinous buddies (again played by Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere) who will try anything to satisfy the seemingly frigid woman (Carol Laure) they crave. Since the doe-eyed heroine, Solange, appears to be a mindless sex object and the heroes are winning rakes, Blier all but invites condemnation as a sexist. But this film maker doesn't brood over trendy labels; he's willing to risk offending people to get what he wants...
...Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience," E.B. White wrote 30 years ago. "If they did, they would live elsewhere." They know that the city is too damned dirty, and no doubt getting dirtier, with about 50% of the sanitation trucks broken down at any given moment. (Miraculously, however, a new law requiring dog walkers to clean up after their pets is being widely obeyed.) They know that many once grassy parks have long since been scuffed to baldness. But most great cities have been dirty and dangerous-for example, ancient Rome, 18th and 19th century London. New Yorkers...
...child care, and the working wife needs her own full wardrobe of office clothes. Their philosophy is expressed by a community service representative for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Robert Molina, 24, whose wife is a clerk in the sheriffs office: "When you see something on TV, you crave...
Other than that, just about everything that we listed last week (you remember last week, don't you?) is still playing. If you crave real theater, go to something other than the faded relics of Broadway...