Word: horror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people to find anything to do or use that does not come with some built-in anxiety. The trouble is that every-where they turn these days, one thing or another is posted with the red flag of danger, if not with the skull and crossbones of mortal horror...
...arresting its growth at 5 ft. But the adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare for a solid job and search for a mate. The first prospect filled him with gloom, the latter with dread. He wrote in his notebook: "Great-est horror-dream I am married-wake up shrieking...
Young agreed with Countryman, saying that as "the world's greatest humanitarian power," America has an obligation to fight the "moral horror" going on in Cambodia with both food and medicine...
Well before noon on Christmas Day, horror-stricken adults will issue forth from every child-equipped house in the nation. They will be dismayed because they have seen the future. The future works, as it turns out, but only if they make a run for more batteries. Not, as in the good old days, a couple of 10? Evereadys, but bushels of expensive nine-volts, pecks of Penlites, and Cs and Ds in numbers beyond counting...
...team of white-gowned Arabs zealously guards a shrieking black Arabian stallion. When a storm strikes late one night, the film provides a shipwreck of classic proportions. In a series of corrosive, lightning-quick cuts, Ballard does as much as a film maker can to capture the vertigo and horror of death by fire and drowning...