Word: frightfully
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Spector, Phil •last public appearance of in a crazy fright-wig until at least...
...changed since the 1980s, but scenery is immaterial when it comes to the straight-from-the-line fish and variety of live sea creatures in the window tanks. The mantis prawns may look like monsters from a horror film, but the taste - finer than any lobster - is worth the fright...
...genre director, a horror film is a game of geometry. It's all about the slow movement of the victim and the camera into a space of probable peril. In the Hitchcock school of tension-ratcheting, Lussier is an apt apprentice. (He also borrows a Hitchcock trick, from Stage Fright, of showing a misleading scene from the killer's demented point of view.) The movie is nothing above the ordinary, but that doesn't matter to the horror fanboys, who go to these movies the way their dads visit Ace Hardware. Different tools, familiar vibe...
...19th century, and Matsumoto's mentor, a famous psychologist named Paul Ekman who traveled the globe in the 1960s, proved that both isolated tribesmen and urban Westerners identified pictures of facial expressions in the same way. Ekman demonstrated that a frown means unhappiness the world over; wide eyes mean fright or surprise; a wrinkled nose means disgust. But no one has yet found the source of these universal expressions: Do we all learn the expressions through our culture, or are facial configurations genetically coded for everyone...
...split with one manager over a Burger King Whopper - Eminem couldn't afford one and figured any manager unwilling to shell out for a client's lunch wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...