Word: horridness
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...effects, you understand: these folks don't sit at computers and play with pixels, a technique that requires an actor to stand in front of a green screen and mime fear. They are old-fashioned craftsmen, using spirit gum and other medieval (and modern) applications to devise prostheses so horrid, so hand-made, they'd scare anyone on the set. In a tradition stretching back to silent-film star Lon Chaney, the SPFX makeup men, in essence, build scary masks. They make horror visible by sculpting...
...news prepared by her press secretary, Bernard Ingham. She looks through the Financial Times, but generally only skims the other papers. In fact, Thatcher makes it a rule to skip nasty stories about herself. "You start to see your name and, if you know it's going to be horrid, then stop," she once said. "During the day, you have to take your decisions and concentrate your mind, and you can't if something is really hurtful...
...during the recent peace conference, Palestinians gathered in the tens of thousands to denounce peace and chant, "Death to Israel." Muslims and Christians were free to travel throughout Israel and practice their religion in peace until radicals began attacking Israeli civilians. Hamad's need to blame someone for the horrid situation is understandable. But he chose his target poorly. He should look within his own community before blaming his neighbors who deign to defend their very lives from radical Islamists. Michael Yanovich, LOS ANGELES...
...fire interrogation and his reedy, disdainful tone, Mansfield is a cross between TV detective Columbo and Harry Potter's Professor Severus Snape.) "I didn't know what I would be asked," the former butler said. "I thought it would be easier than it is. Quite frankly, it's been horrid...
...during the recent peace conference, Palestinians gathered in the tens of thousands to denounce peace and chant "Death to Israel." Muslims and Christians were free to travel throughout Israel and practice their religion in peace until radicals began attacking Israeli civilians. Hamad's need to blame someone for the horrid situation is understandable. But he chose his target poorly. He should look within his own community before blaming his neighbors who deign to defend their very lives from radical Islamists. Michael Yanovich, Los Angeles...