Word: scared
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...know,” Wright hypothesizes.Second, through a series of interviews with members of the Wilcox family, Wright adds significant new insights into the character of Lester, the grief-stricken mill manager whose quest to avenge his younger brother’s death sparked Harvard’s Gay Scare. “[A]n entity as extreme as a gay-purging tribunal needed exceptional energy and passion to propel it into existence,” Wright tells us. “That energy came from Lester Wilcox.”Wright takes his readers on a roller-coaster ride...
...audiences like their thrills fast and simple; hence the horror film. But there are subtler ways to get the creeps; hence the suspense film. In 53 features over 51 years, Alfred Hitchcock imprinted himself so indelibly on that genre that he was known as the Master of Suspense, influencing scare artists on three continents. In the films below, the accents are unique but the frissons are similar. Fear, after all, is a universal language...
...consequences of inadvertent infection. She hooks up with Rob, a cute guy who, as she discovers in the act of coitus, has a second mouth that utters his deepest thoughts. "It's impossible?nnn?never make it out alive." While enduring the usual high school dramas - a pregnancy scare as he avoids her in the hallways - things get worse when she discovers she can shed her entire epidermis like a snake. So, outed at the school, she flees to the woods with Rob, who has disclosed his true feelings for her. Almost literally ensconced in a love nest, things...
...Unlike the anthrax scare, pandemic fears are widespread and taken far more seriously by international agencies. So the demand for a treatment--until, at least, a vaccine becomes available, and probably well after--isn't likely to subside. It will continue to draw manufacturers considerably less concerned than is Roche about its intellectual property rights. Cipla, an Indian generics manufacturer that already sells cheap HIV drugs to African countries, now plans to begin selling a generic version of Tamiflu at cut-rate prices--and says it will do so probably within three months, regardless of whether the Swiss drug firm...
...Don’t let that 10.5 number in front of the Big Red scare...