Word: frights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boxes in his imagination for fear of its strength: he is afraid to govern himself, and so seeks a quiet world in a sterile niche of hierarchy. Thus he becomes his own captor and exploiter, and buries his dreams. Stage-fright soon makes spectators...
...name. "You the guy been makin' all the trouble in town?" Mumbling. Fright. "We hear you been stayin' with the niggers and stirrin' up trouble." No, sir. Now some action; two of the men began looking through my car. That wasn't good, since I had 500 copies of the Courier sitting on the back seat. They didn't know what the paper was, but they could tell they didn't like...
...might better have either found their special beauty (as he did in Dracula), or left them in the ominous darkness of their baskets until they limped, wriggled, and crawled forth to execute a plausible vengeance on their enemies. From deformity Browning could have wrung mature terror instead of adolescent fright...
Nevertheless, at 34, Arkin has established himself as a major theatrical talent. In his Broadway debut in Enter Laughing, he played an acting student, crippled with a plethora of fright sweat and a dearth of talent. The performance earned him a Tony Award. As the suicidal intellectual in Luv, Arkin was so explosively funny that his director, Mike Nichols, called him "the best actor in America." He won an Oscar nomination for his first full-length film role: the resignedly subversive Soviet officer in The Russians Are Coming. His first straight picture, Wait Until Dark, was a Guinness-like tour...
...often have had to work ten-hour shifts and sixday weeks, which can be pretty grueling when one is juggling 20 planes per minute. Typical salaries start at $6,321 and stop at $15,828. Jets on radar screens show up so indistinctly that one controller literally died of fright. Says Michael Rock, chairman of PATCO: "It seems ridiculous that NASA can track a needle and we can't even make out two giant jets if they are closer than a mile and a half...