Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This season, Mager deservedly earned the reputation as one of the nation's most intimidating threats on the court. Able to frighten opponents by slapping down thunderous kills, Mager led the Crimson with a .392 hitting percentage and an average of 3.842 kills per game...
...mean to frighten the kids; Tarzan is not Oedipus Rex. It's a Disney coming-of-age comedy-drama in Lion King territory, with five radio-friendly tunes written and sung by Phil Collins. It has a standard villain: a grating white hunter (whose musculature nicely mimics Kerchak's, thus suggesting their similarity as imperfect male role models for the boy). It has a reeeeally cute baby baboon. It enfolds our hero in a dream jungle, painted in the lushest of sherbetty forest colors and shot in a new, virtual 3-D format called Deep Canvas that vivifies the scenes...
...joked that he was going to have four wives: one to shine his shoes, one to feed him grapes, one to rub oil on his muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea of fun was to frighten his parents--putting a sheet over his head and jumping out at them from a closet, or tying a string to a bedroom curtain and making it move after his parents had gone...
...They drove us to Salisbury Beach, where I shivered with cold and yelled about the value of southern Texas waters as she and her brothers happily swam, polar bear-like, around me. We rented "So I Married an Axe Murderer" more times than I care to admit, and would frighten tourist groups in the Yard by reciting (loudly) all of Mike Myers' "Woman! Wo-man! Wooooooman!" speeches. I entertained her the night she took four Vivarin to write a paper. It became commonplace for us to walk out of our rooms in the morning wearing the same outfit without having...
...real. The stigma of adult content has been enough to frighten away top-tier underwriters like DLJ and Goldman Sachs. But for second-tier underwriters, the seamy associations might be worth the bottom-line bump. Craig Gould, vice president of National Securities, a firm that says it is likely to be in on the deal, believes the company can be floated, pointing out that BearStearns found a way to take Playboy public: "History has shown that Wall Street has raised money for adult companies," he says. Fidelity and Warburg Pincus hold blocks of Playboy stock, while BearStearns and T. Rowe...