Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Humanoids, Prom Night, or Friday the 13th-- dubbed by horror novelist Stephen King in a Phoenix interview as a "snuff movie," where the audience waits eagerly for 13 campers and counsellors to be gorily dispatched. The violence in these low-budget horror films signals a new irreverence for the human body: no longer a vessel for the mind or soul but for blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these spectacles takes real showmanship, as evidenced...
Savini's work on Down of the Dead wasn't truly offensive because cannibalistic zombies and not, for the most part, human beings were destroyed. The audience appreciated this and enjoyed the turkey shoot, indulging its most aggressive fantasies without the accompanying guilt. This attitude, however, has spread to living characters, often innocent victims (though usually reduced to zombies by one-dimensional scripts), and the laughter is--well, immoral...
...George Orwell's 1984, the world operates as smoothly as a well-oiled machine under the dictates of Big Brother. Human problems exist, but they are quietly and successfully squelched. To talk to Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) officials, the construction of the extended subway line--due for completion in 1984--is part and parcel of Orwell's perfect world. But beneath the boarded construction loom large problems that even two Big Brothers, Harvard and the MBTA, can't handle...
...volumes on the shelves filling an entire wall of the office provide the first clue: The Golden Age of Science, Human Aspects of Biomedical Innovation, Familiar Medical Quotations, and copies of The American Historical Review. They are not your typical scientific journals. But, then, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and the owner of these and hundreds of other similarly titled tomes, is not your typical scientist. He's also not your typical historian of science--if there is such a thing--for Mendelsohn does not immerse himself in academics to the exclusion of other activities...
...that the Hawaiians had appreciably less sculptural genius than other Pacific cultures, such as the Maoris or New Hebrideans; but the gaunt, intimidating ferocity of some of the pieces, especially a head woven from vine roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which...