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Kids can get violent images from movies, TV, DVDs, the Internet. Yet the latest outrage over the feeding of gore to the very young came from one of the oldest forms of commercial communication: the billboard. Ads with grisly graphics from such fright films as Captivity and Dead Silence loomed over children as they went to their Los Angeles--area schools. And if the images didn't scare the young, they upset many parents--and detonated the latest installment in an old debate: Are scary things bad for kids...
...worrying things about the new movies is that they have moved beyond the manufacture of fright (which can be therapeutic for kids) to the lovingly detailed depiction of sadism. The other is that kids might not be traumatized by the genre. Are they so jaded that they instantly ironize every movie gross-out moment and become little connoisseurs of repellent special effects...
...fright wig he was going to wear would have blocked the view of folks behind...
...trustworthy feature is easily his smile, a lopsided thing that makes him look as if half his face is pleased with something while the other half is paying bills. Research at Columbia University revealed that when some people see fleeting, subliminally projected images of fearful faces, their brain's fright center lights up. If fear is infectious, perhaps a dishonest face makes us feel similarly slippery or a surly face leaves us feeling sour--hardly what politicians want to stir up in voters...
...Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away as a result of the hype and hysteria being propagated by governments and Big Business. The media are also guilty. What we give away in moments of anguish and fright will be more than difficult to regain later. Disdaining our laws in order to protect ourselves makes us little better than the maniacs who seek to destroy our civilisation. Paul Jacobi Obermarchtal, Germany Of Royal Chromosomes You owe Japan's Princess Masako an apology for reporting that she "failed...