Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employs a gliding subjective camera throughout, alternating between the killer's and the victims' points of view, producing a continual, stomach-tightening sense of menace. There is surprisingly little blood in the movie, scarcely any nudity, and, considering the story it comes out of, and the opportunities available for flat-out ghoulishness, Carpenter has produced a tame and tactful film. However, most of Assault's quirky humor and antic allusiveness have been rubbed away, and Halloween, by comparison, is thinned by the expenditure of so much energy towards pure scariness. Carpenter flirts, here as in Assault, with some vaguely metaphysical...
...Coming within 278,000 km (172,400 miles) of the swirling Jovian cloud tops, the robot survived intense radiation, peered deep into the planet's storm-tossed cloud cover, provided startling views of the larger Jovian moons and, most surprising of all, revealed the presence of a thin, flat ring around the great planet. Said University of Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith: "We're standing here with our mouths open, reluctant to tear ourselves away...
...night, and every three or four years they produce and album with the best of the stars. One is the works now. Some past attractions of note, or at least semi-note, were Peter Kairo, who has now released his own album; Orrin Starr, the 1976 national flat-picking champion; Stormin' Norman and Suzy, who just hit the New York scene with a write up in The Times, and David Mish, now working for Mork and Mindy...
When Vicki Lefever, 29, a pregnant Santa Monica housewife, went to her mailbox last Dec. 12, she found a disturbing notice. It informed her that her building was being converted into a condominium, and that she and her policeman husband could either buy their apartment, a two-bedroom flat renting at $395 a month, for $95,000 within 30 days-or move out. She was so upset that her blood pressure soared to 160 over 100, and she went into labor, giving birth prematurely that night to 6-lb. 3-oz. Eliot. "My doctor says the notice caused the whole...
...Amateur Athletic Union, "he's going to establish himself as the greatest high hurdler who ever lived." Coaches like Elliott and San Diego State's Dick Hill think Nehemiah will take the record below 13 sec., a feat that would be as remarkable as breaking 9 flat in the 100-yd. dash...