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Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The title and themes derive from and are an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from...


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St. Joseph News-Press
Knock-out Blow
09/11/2006: 694 words, approx. 2 pages
KANSAS CITY - Now it's Carson Palmer's turn to return the kindness and reach out to Trent Green. When Palmer went down last January with a devastating knee injury, Green was one of the first to call the Cincinnati quarterback. Although the two...
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Redd, confident Bucks blow out Warriors
2/28/2007: 741 words, approx. 3 pages
The return of Michael Redd has the Milwaukee Bucks playing with confidence. Redd scored 31 points, including six 3-pointers, to lead the Bucks to a 122-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night."To win our last two games really helped our psyche, really...
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Saints blowing out Cowboys in 4th
12/11/2006: 660 words, approx. 2 pages
Drew Brees matched his career high with five touchdown passes, two in a 3 1/2-minute span during which New Orleans recovered an onside kick, and the Saints led the Dallas Cowboys 42-17 after three quarters Sunday night.Fullback Mike Karney, usually a blocker, scored the first...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Pauline Kael
498 words, approx. 2 pages
"Blow Out" isn't a comedy or a film of the macabre; it involves the assassination of the most popular candidate for the Presidency, so it might be called a political thriller, but it isn't really a genre film. For the first time, De Palma goes inside his central character…. And he stays inside. He has become so proficient in the techniques of suspense that he can use what he knows more expressively. You don't see set pieces in "Blow Out"—it flow...
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Critical Essay by Michael Sragow
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De Palma makes movies about divided personalities, characters uncertain of their social and psychological identities, torn between impulse and reason. He plays dark games with them among the land mines of our cities, where a rape, a race riot or a revolution could be just around the corner. His material is often Grand Guignol, but the intelligence behind it is as sophisticated as Edgar Allan Poe's. A daring writer and director, De Palma attacks his controversial themes with new frankness and confiden...


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