Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gleefully revels in its own absurdity. While so many horror films these days desperately try to copy the Scream formula, in which teen stars act hip while being terrorized (Disturbing Behavior and Urban Legend come readily to mind), it's refreshing to watch a horror flick that isn't afraid to rely on excessive campiness. While Vampires never quite reaches the level of ingenious nonsense as, say, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead, its clever blend of Dracula and The Wild Bunch makes for an embarrassingly fun ride. Much like the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez vampire spaghetti western From Dusk Till Dawn...
...dressed." Gray, who on average reads three books a week, says Wolfe's latest novel, A Man in Full, offers "a deep look at society without skimping on pizazz and wretched excess." JOEL STEIN, who wrote this week's article on the Yankees, never played Little League. "I was afraid of the other kids," he admits. He joined the soccer team only because his parents insisted that he play a sport--and bowling wasn't offered at his elementary school. "I didn't like soccer. I used to run away from the ball and pick dandelions." His aversion to playing...
DIED. DR. MARY S. CALDERONE, 94, sex-education crusader; in Kennett Square, Pa. Amid criticism that she was a purveyor of smut, Calderone proclaimed America a "sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons," and campaigned for responsible sex education in public schools. In 1964 she helped found the Sexuality Information and Education Council...
Every argument against universal keycard access is weak. Safety will be compromised by universal access, some claim, because anyone with a Harvard ID can get in anywhere. Wrong. First, who are these Harvard ID-bearers the masters are afraid of? Harvard students? Or is it that mythic unshaven creature of Harvard Square, beer on his breath and bad deeds on his mind, who finds an ID in the crosswalk on Mass. Ave. and jumps at the chance to infiltrate the Harvard system? That is not likely to happen. People don't drop their ID cards on the street all that...
Finally, to Mansfield's assertion that Harvard is too P.C.: We disagree. Students and Faculty are for the most part liberal, and many are genuinely interested in areas such as Afro-American Studies. But we do not see a crazed community in which people are afraid to share their views. We do not see an administration bowing to liberal pressure at the expense of conservative ideas...