Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half of the film is enjoyably fast-paced--and horrifying. The actors and actresses are accomplished and convincing as they are tormented in their ordeal. Friedkin proves that he can thrill and frighten, but he also has a point to make: The boundaries of law and ethics are fragile and often meaningless...
...whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...
...Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot clusters is converted into the animal face of a creature with haglike breasts that surges out of a pool to frighten the bathing nymphs...
...created an atomic weapon, perhaps combined with a demonstration detonation and a surrender ultimatum that made clear that Japan could retain its Emperor. Likewise McCullough skirts the tortured debate on "atomic diplomacy," reducing it to the question of whether the Bomb was dropped in part to frighten the Soviets and then quickly dismissing this theory without exploring the complexities of revisionist arguments over the causes of the cold...
...many of those cities were able to negotiate their expansion deals before their urban centers had deteriorated enough to frighten the outlying areas. "Generally speaking, the cities that have had luck in annexing were the ones that were not too troubled or low income to begin with," says Kevin Phillips, the ex-Nixon aide who first identified the gop advantage in suburbia in his 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority. "When it's a problem city, the suburbs fight like hell, and they can usually succeed...