Word: fright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simply turned movie star. In Director Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron, a dramatization of last summer's shipyard strikes and a sequel to his acclaimed Man of Marble, Walesa plays himself. He apparently has no strikes against him. Says Wajda: "He performed without any stage fright and even joked that he might want to join the film company." His one scene yet to be filmed will show Walesa taking a meeting on the coast-this one at the gates of the historic Gdansk shipyard...
...workers furiously rejected a 6% pay raise offered by Thatcher's government bargainers. Said he: "I told them to get stuffed." Through it all, the Prime Minister stood fast last week. In a TV appearance from No. 10 Downing Street, she had scoffed at past governments that "have taken fright and cut and run" when the going got tough. Said she: "If I could only get this message over: I will not stagger from expedient to expedient...
...regularly; and the landlord then fixed it, to his credit. However, when a small skunk found its way through the roof and into the air vent, the grate didn't hold out and the surprised skunk came tumbling onto the floor of the apartment, spraying the entire room in fright. The apartment and all the woman's possessions were ruined beyond repair, and the furry little varmint got away unscathed; but the luckless landlord was fined the maximum of $500 and the smell of justice lingered on long after...
...difference. The terrors of the times have a tendency to arrive on their own steam. And see: here come three more. We know them well. For months they have been hounding us - grinning, waving wildly, like demons, grabbing our hands and shaking them, while we shied away in fright, figuring that with the ghost of a chance, we could avoid a confrontation perhaps for ever. Now our hands shake on their own. For this is the scariest time of the year, and the three of them are out there, pounding at the door...
...decadence of Rocky Horror appeared to fit in well with the Harvard Square and its 1600 mostly dilapidated seats. Androgynous alien ushers prowled the aisles with flashlights before the show started, occasionally startling audience members and supplying just the right atmosphere of good-humored fright for a show O'Brien meant as a homage to the great science fiction chiller thrillers--the "B movies...