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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...million before Super Tuesday spawned a one-day record-breaking online haul of $10 million for her campaign. Obama has never tested his network's fears: fear of a third Bush term, of continued GOP control of the White House, of losing. If hope can raise $300 million, can fright raise $200 million more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: The Half-Billion-Dollar Man | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...When a child screams in delicious fright as these image leap from the screen and into the brain's trauma center, any parent will whisper a consoling "They're not real, honey." They are, though-as real as any nightmares the dream machine can conjure. But a machine didn't dream up, design, build, or give festering life to these creatures. Stan Winston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...Carpenter's threatening Thing, the original RoboCop and the twisted uggies in Total Recall. And a tip of the skull to Tom Savini, "the Godfather of Gore" who's made every known body part, and a few that should have remained unknown, drip, crack or explode in his six fright films with George A. Romero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan Winston: Monster Magician | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard, you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs, and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken | Title: Guzzling Away | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan after his death, calling him a "great President and ... gentle man." Wyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

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