Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a film of deep terrors and troubling insights-one that works a spell of continual, mounting anxiety. It concerns the supernatural and has an eerie, dreadful power, but it is not simply a scare show; it is in the tradition of The Turn of the Screw, not The Exorcist. Don't Look Now uses the occult and the inexplicable as Henry James did: to penetrate the subconscious, to materialize phantoms from the psyche...
...executive and slightly wounded another. After threatening more terrorism, the group demanded and got $1,000,000 from Ford for ambulances and medical and school supplies for the Argentine poor. This time the motive was less charitable. The shooting was seen instead as part of a systematic effort to scare off foreign capital and at the same time discredit the beleaguered regime of Juan Perón, who has vowed to bring terrorism under control...
...cost of housing materials jumped, with a 20% increase in the price of plywood. The cause was a rash of scare buying amid fears that shortages of fuel and glue, an oil derivative, would lead to slowdowns in production. In Oregon, eleven mills, producing 5% of America's plywood, announced that they face complete or partial shutdowns this month...
...sooner had Richard Nixon put 2,000,000 U.S. servicemen round the world on stand-by alert than many Americans were asking whether the war scare was really necessary. Undoubtedly, most previous Presidents would have received wholehearted public backing, at least initially; as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...
...Crimson thinclads gave coach Bill McCurdy a scare when they got off to a weak start behind a sprinting Dartmouth club. The Big Green, buoyed by their formerly undefeated status, looked invincible for the first three and a half miles...