Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

terror: strategies of the absurd

…The Palestinians terror groups appear to have made the strategy of the absurd into a specialty: the sheer audacity, historically, of their most spectacular exploits seems to flout any criteria of rational behavior. However, other groups practice the same basic … Continue reading

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terror: sheer, irrational madness

…Even more distinctive of modern terrorism, as  opposed to its origins, is the random nature of its violence. Earlier terrorists usually had some specific and comprehensible grievance against their victims. Quite often the attack was in retaliation for the acts … Continue reading

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the 1950′s: many monuments to tedium

Rosy myths and unrosy realities. Why must we feel nostalgic for the 1950′s even if we never lived them? … …let it be unequivocally stated that television of the 1950′s with a few exceptions was absolutely awful, as most of … Continue reading

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exact fit

by Art Chantry: this profile line drawign of hitchcock is so famous that we assume it was done by an old master celebrity illustrator like hirschfield or somebody like that. this particular version here is so ancient that you may … Continue reading

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greatest horrors offscreen

Just in the nick of time. The eleventh hour. As the fuse was being lit….The bottom line is send cash. Lots of it. The propensity of regimes like Jordan to always be reduced to begging status, to fabricate fantastic plots … Continue reading

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stone genius

by Art Chantry: john carpenter is one of my favorite directors. the guy does some some stinkers, yes. but, like roger corman, he never loses money. he penny-pinches and lowballs and craftily compromises to meet his low low budgets. he … Continue reading

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citizen candy kane: sums of discrepancies

After foisting one over on the low threshold of common sense that characterizes the American public with his radio adaptation of H.G. Well’s The War of the Worlds, a kind of national exercise in mass hysteria and trauma that conveyed … Continue reading

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fast food on the game reserve

Roadkill? Maybe its a metaphor for sexual tourism. Maybe he doesn’t really kill the animal, going through the whole tracking and shooting. Instead, he hers them into a fenced in area and runs them over in a Land Rover. Or … Continue reading

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writhing six feet deep

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J) From the Introduction (reprinted from the 1947 Dell edition): “This business of selecting stories for a Dell Book anthology is getting to be a habit with me, though not … Continue reading

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zombie banking: deposit at your risk

Early on in the financial crisis, economic opinion from the like of Krugman, Stiglitz et al.  warned that the greatest danger of the bailouts was the creation of  zombie banks. Essentially cadavers, near cadavers with a faint pulse in a … Continue reading

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