Word: frightingly
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Manson is not, of course, the first to wring fame out of ghoulish theater. Pioneer shock rockers Alice Cooper and Kiss made millions daring audiences to share the humor behind their fright masks. But Manson's act is shorn of all humor. What's left is lurid spectacle that conveys little meaning beyond its shock value...
...hardworking Member of Parliament. Jackson, who has two Best Actress Oscars, and was a 1972 Emmy winner for Elizabeth R, walked away from movie celebrity in 1992 and won election as Labour's representative for Hampstead and Highgate. During a 27-year acting career, she suffered from extreme stage fright; she told the Guardian last September that "the longer I carried on, the greater the fear became.'' In the House of Commons, however, she is fearless. Proud of her working-class roots--she's a bricklayer's daughter--Jackson concentrates on transportation issues. Last week she led her party...
...such an art came in part, as it must, from a sense of continuity with both past and present. Beckmann's paintings draw, for instance, on German Gothic woodcarvings, in which the task of scooping space from a thin panel causes the figures to stand stiffly as though in fright. Equally, his work was influenced by Matisse, whose daring, expressive color and use of black translate, in Beckmann, into a stylistic effect similar to stained glass, with burning patches of green or flesh color emphasized by a webwork of heavy black outlines...
...first I thought he was drunk. Then I figured he was mentally ill. Maybe it was just stage fright...
...freedom and choice" to express fear or lack of confidence before taking off in the thin, storm-tossed air of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hathaway says it's acceptable to die in a state of joy, but we know it's not O.K. to die in a state of fright. This mother may very well believe that she would do nothing differently a second time. The question remains: Would Jessica? JERILYN DEPETE Syracuse, New York...