Word: scared
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...then in movies like Dr. Strangelove. (TV worked more elliptically, through cold-war anxiety parables such as those on the Twilight Zone, which, by the way, returns this fall on UPN, hosted by Forrest Whitaker.) If a writer turned Beene's bomb-shelter scene into a bioterror scare in a sitcom set in the present, it wouldn't make it past the first-draft stage at a major network. Perhaps that's the hidden value of cultural nostalgia. It hints that the past was not better but worse than today, allowing us to exorcise forbidden thoughts about the present...
...young woman (the fetching Angelica Lee), blind since childhood, has her sight restored with a pair of eyes from an unknown donor. Suddenly she sees ... dead people. Twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, who directed the spiffy actioner Bangkok Dangerous, settle this time for stock characterizations and flabby scare devices. The only thing that jolted audiences out of their seats was the sudden deep rumbling of the Dolby sound system whenever a ghost appeared. It must have been the Ghost of Hong Kong Movies Past, keening over the poor quality of this latest horror-movie...
Harvard got a scare on its ensuing possession when Rose was hit hard on a quarterback keeper up the middle. He stayed down on the field for about two minutes before walking off under his own power...
...hope that all members of the Harvard Community will join in rejecting Attorney General John Ashcroft’s message to critics of the Bush administration’s domestic anti-terrorism measures delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this,” Ashcroft said. “Your tactics only aid terrorists—for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America?...
...even if he can't shame them into action, President Bush may well manage to scare them - his "if Iraq wants to avoid war" mantra was an unmistakable warning that if the UN can't stop Saddam's scofflaw pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, Washington is more than ready to do so alone. And what the European and Arab allies want more than anything else is to avoid a war whose consequences they fear will be more devastating than any threat posed by Saddam right now. It is fear of what the U.S. may do that has galvanized France...