Word: horror
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worse. David Stanley told the Associated Press: "We landed, the plane started skidding, and then flames, flames," he said. "I remember flames and flames." The plane slid all the way to the edge of the Arkansas River -- forcing passengers to disembark in waist-deep water. But aside from the horror, few hints have emerged of exactly what went wrong. The flight had been delayed two hours in Dallas, and arrived in Little Rock at the wrong time: Just as a storm began buffeting the airport with lightning, hail and winds gusting to 75 mph. Yet no distress call from...
...friends must not have been part of that conversation. When asked why no one told a teacher or the principal that T.J. recently threatened to bomb a classroom, the students shrug and look away, dragging on their cigarettes. The look on their face is not of shock or horror, but a numb roll of the eyes, as if they've already begun to see the shooting as some sort of campus ritual, akin to the nuclear-attack drills of the 1950s. Asked why he thought students were resorting to gun violence again and again, Michael Woods, a friend of Cheek...
Similar responses can be heard in schools across the U.S., as the Columbine horror galvanizes teenage evangelical Christians. "The Internet and the e-mail have been just huge on this among Christian kids and youth organizers," says Doug Clark, field director of San Diego's National Network of Youth Ministries. He reports hundreds of teen gatherings on the tragedy in "dozens" of states. Keith Malcom, the Wichita coordinator for Susan Teran's school group and several dozen others, describes a surge of youths volunteering to be "missionaries" in their schools. The Rev. Billy Epperhart, who officiated at four funerals...
...House calls itself a Christian school, where the day opens with the Lord's Prayer, and grace is spoken before each meal--character-building tools unavailable, of course, to the nation's public schools. But we live now in the bloody backwash of Littleton, Jonesboro and several other schoolhouse horror stories, not to mention the more quotidian indicators of failing character, from widespread cheating to gang activity. Across the country, schools both public and private are turning to programs of character education in hopes of inoculating kids with the values of civility and integrity, against the depredations of a popular...
...believes the stories "represent a way of thinking about problems, particularly family problems: intimacy, sexuality and practical areas like money, dowries, property and hierarchy--who has the power to free women from their poverty?" In her new book she examines the way fear and pleasure have become intertwined, as horror films and books about serial killers become increasingly popular. "Our monsters," she says, "are of our own making...