Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charming. "They liked to eat," he says. "That's all they did. They would eat people's legs off, chew people's fingers. They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Poltergeist, E. T.) in which not a single person dies: "I'm not sure if anybody...
Privately, the Sandinistas concede that Nicaraguans have grown tired and disheartened in the course of the revolutionary crusade. So, they confess, have they. The former guerrilla fighters describe the current period as one of the hardest they have ever faced in their frequently grim revolutionary careers. They claim that no matter what they do, almost no one outside Nicaragua seems to believe them and that in Washington, the Reagan Administration seems unwilling to give in on any point at all. At times, the comandantes even lapse into the past tense when referring to their revolution. At a Directorate meeting last...
When the Harvard women's tennis team travels to UCLA today to compete in the NCAAs, the Crimson will face the grim prospect of a Saturday encounter with the nation's fifth-best team the University of Southern California...
...terrorists could be seen holding a grenade launcher. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., Israeli commandos rushed the bus. Two terrorists were killed instantly, and the other two died of their wounds on the way to the hospital. One passenger died and seven were injured in the crossfire. Another grim episode of terrorism, so depressingly familiar to all Israelis, appeared...
...case of the Green River Killer is part of a grim parade of so-called serial murderers. According to a Justice Department study released earlier this year, in more than 30 cases during the past decade, a lone murderer has killed at least half a dozen people, usually strangers, over a period of time. Robert Keppel, chief criminal investigator for the state attorney general's office, sees common threads among serial killers: most are literate, charismatic and uncommonly familiar with police routines. The problem is finding the clues that even the most intelligent of murderers leave behind...