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TAINTED: Journal of a Survivor Prologue
Fri, 2011-04-15 15:44 — T. R. GouldMonday, April 4, 2011
10:24pm
Routine is the ultimate time machine; if everything stays boring and predictable, there’s nothing to make you savor life, and you start letting the moments pour through your fingers like rain.
The Crazies
During the 10 years between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, director George Romero had a string of box-office flops--some of which were actually quite good. For example,there's The Crazies, in which a military plane carrying biological-warfare agents crashes near Evans City, Pennsylvania. The virus gets into the town's water supply and has two effects on the infected: death or irreversible insanity. The military moves in to contain the situation, but the local populace regards the army as a menacing force and things rapidly spin out of control.

