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...grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after wrecking his car, spends a night with a farm couple who have...
Tongue-in-cheek humor also lifts Freddy's Nightmares above the jolt-'em-out- of-their-seats level of its theatrical namesakes. Freddy (Robert Englund) can still be one ruthless customer: in the season opener, he sliced off a woman's head, which plopped to the floor like a ripe pineapple. Most weeks, however, he serves merely as the wisecracking narrator for unrelated stories revolving around dreams. Many are unexpectedly lighthearted; a few even approach satire. In one of last season's entries, a yuppie career woman had a thirtysomething nightmare about having a baby: her boss replaced...
...they swing between imperturbability and panic, Americans leave many experts wondering how to get society to gauge an acceptable risk. Almost a decade of dwindling public confidence in the Environmental Protection Agency, which was treated like an unwanted appendage by the Reagan Administration, has led to a proportionate rise in the attention given to claims made by private consumer and environmental organizations that focus on food safety and risks to health. Dan Howell, the director of the Americans for Safe Food project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, says that groups like his are flourishing. "Our membership...
Experts on risk perception generally agree that people tend to be less concerned about dangers they incur voluntarily, like cigarette smoking and fast driving. They are more resentful of risks they feel have been imposed upon them, like the threat of mishaps at a nearby nuclear plant. They are more sensitive to risks they can control -- for instance, through laws that ban pesticides or require safety warnings -- than they are to those they feel they can do nothing about -- like acts of nature. "People choose what to fear," says Aaron Wildavsky, co-author of Risk and Culture. "What...
...shake people's tenacity. Natural disasters do not often occur in so predictable a manner. Mary Skipper is getting ready to replace her mobile home near Charleston, S.C., in a spot hit hard by Hurricane Hugo in September. "I know this is a flood plain," she explains. "But something like Hugo may never happen again for another 100 years...