Word: performance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, with some imagination and expertise and some tough bargaining, Harvard could turn the Stadium into a real asset for itself, and perform a great service to the Patriots and to Metropolitan Boston...
...line to try again." He enlists one of his female followers to help him discorporate some enemies of the cult. The Martian makes a list of those to be dispatched, and in one evening 450 are killed. Police believe that Manson, like the Martian, used his women to perform the grisly revenge that he sought on the group gathered with Sharon Tate last summer. According to one of the attorneys in the case. Manson was compiling a Martian-style list of enemies to be murdered...
...convergence theory rests on three basic assumptions. One is that industrialization by necessity leads to urbanization and a common culture with uniformities in skills, techniques, organizations and even problems-like the alienation of factory workers from jobs and machines. Because workers and managers in Gary, Ind., and Magnitogorsk perform similar tasks, the argument goes, they tend to develop similar ways of life. The second premise is that industrialization leads to increased diversity and complexity in a society -to a pluralistic condition that overrides all ideologies. The third is that industrialization creates affluence, which undermines political discipline and ideological conformity...
...obviously hoped would be an allegory of prewar German history. Although the Von Essenbecks appear to have been modeled rather closely on the Krupps, The Damned is about as potent a parable of Germany as Wagner's Ring cycle, which it outdoes in zestful vulgarity. The actors all perform with an unbridled bravado, the cinematography is properly bilious, and there are enough sex scenes-a good many of them homosexual-to get the movie rated ten-X, like a box of confectioner's sugar. But The Damned deserves the reaction it encourages. It is an outrageous film with...