Word: fright
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...sleep with Washington Irving's drolly orotund style. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is still a bedtime staple in tonier households, and with its Headless Horseman hurling a grimacing pumpkin at the head of Ichabod Crane, the story helped create the American giddying-up of Halloween as a funny fright night. But like so many old fables, Sleepy Hollow is chiefly remembered in its Disney version. That 1958 cartoon short, a genial mix of comedy and anxiety, took its tone from the voice of its narrator: Bing Crosby. A lulling, a chuckle, then a little scare...
...resolution--is played by Christopher Walken. Walken's silent performance is sure to make you start out of your seat at least the first time you see him. His gnarly-teeth, wild hair and demonic eyes make you regard his subsequent headlessness as less of a fright and more of a relief...
Harvard won its fourth straight by putting a Halloween fright in Dartmouth (2-8, 1-6) at Hanover, N.H., 20-7. Harvard's defense dominated, holding the Big Green to 225 yards, only 50 on the ground. The Crimson racked up seven sacks and three takeaways...
...early adolescence, separation anxiety may take the form of stage fright. "Adolescents have a sense that they're onstage and everyone's looking at them," says Harriet Lenk, professor of child development at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education. Feeling conspicuous whenever he leaves the home portal can fill a youngster with dread. How can parents help? "Listen to the concerns, talk about what they themselves do when they feel anxious and discuss the child's options," advises Lenk...
...archetype of these renegade fright fests is Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's 1968 horror film about ghouls who rise from the grave to devour the living. Made by a bunch of unknowns in Pittsburgh, Pa., for a piddling $114,000, the film has a grainy look, cheesy acting and a preposterous premise. But the characters we root for are eliminated with grisly dispatch, and the claustrophobic tension mounts so ruthlessly that many early filmgoers had to leave the theater midway--in shock. Sequels and imitators notwithstanding, it remains the most terrifying movie ever made...