Word: cravenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...national-unity government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, head of the Labor Party, is divided over nearly every major decision. Craven leaders, afraid to offend any large minority, conduct government by near paralysis. The present policy on the occupied territories rests on the hope that the civil order will eventually be restored and that the territories will return to the ''status quo,'' the endlessly uneasy but preferred state of affairs in a nation whose front door opens onto the abyss. For 21 years, Israel's leaders have been...
...films have made more than $100 million). The group is loose knit, and other members include the director of the first Saw movie, James Wan, and his co-writer, Leigh Whannell; Hostel writer-director Eli Roth; The Descent's Neil Marshall; and Alexandre Aja, who remade Wes Craven's 1977 cannibalistic film, The Hills Have Eyes...
...very normal bunch. In fact, the writers and directors of the new wave of horror movies seem to be mild young men from the suburbs who grew up watching The Shining at sleepovers while Mom and Dad slept in the next room. The Old Guard of horror directors, including Craven and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), has welcomed the newcomers, inviting them to its Masters of Horror dinner parties in Hollywood (also occasionally attended by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, who are co-directing a slasher double-feature called Grindhouse, due next year...
...road trip as they run from police Cost: $7 million Box office: $20 million Young backpackers unwittingly stumble onto a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia Cost: $4.8 million Box office: $80 million Cannibals torment a family in a desert town once used for nuke tests in this Wes Craven remake Cost: $15 million Box office: $67 million Six girlfriends are harassed by creepy Gollum types on an extreme caving trip in Appalachia Cost: $6 million Box office $44 million From his deathbed, a man directs a doctor and an aggrieved dad in new games Cost: $10 million Box office...
...August 2005 settlement with the Gloucester district court allowed him to dodge an admission of guilt, but The Crimson reported that Charles L. “Charlie” Lane Sr., the 98-year-old farmer, purportedly caught Weitzman red-handed (brown-handed?) in the middle of his craven theft, detaining him until the police arrived. “You realize the extent to which this ‘Harvard’ thing [has] a lot of baggage attached,” Weitzman said to The Crimson last summer, responding to the local outcry over the alleged theft...