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joan crawford

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Good Word: Berserk

April 3, 2009

Now used as an adjective to mean crazy and off the wall, its etymology is as a noun. Berserk has its roots in old Norse languages and refers to a Scandinavian in battle who was invulnerable. A band of them was called berserkers or berserkergang. Some historians have posited that the groups of warriors would…

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film, filmic, review arbogast, axe, gory, hitchcock, janet leigh, joan crawford, pepsi, psycho, siodmak, strait-jacket, theramin, vera miles, william castle

REVIEW: STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

March 1, 2009

Strait-Jacket is choppy, brazen and ragged. Out of place theremin music punctuates at odd moments – as if the sight of Crawford’s falling face, starkly lit, wielding an axe needed accentuating.

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