Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school video class, and the technical crew is never going to win any awards for incredible special effects. But instead of detracting from the show, these unpolished aspects serve to heighten enjoyment and run up the fear factor. Like the Blair Witch Project this summer, the scare lies in the unknown, the monster lurking in the shadows who never quite reveals himself. The thrill lies in the psychological, not the tangible, possibilities...
...medical research community is fortunate that no one has been seriously injured by the rigged envelopes. The activists who hide behind the title of Justice Department may somehow be perversely satisfied to have given their targets at least a good scare, but once the novelty wears off, they should realize what a devastating blow they've dealt to rational discussion and action on behalf of animal rights...
DIED. CALVIN GRIFFITH, 87, parsimonious owner of baseball's Minnesota Twins--until 1960 the Washington Senators; in Minneapolis. His comments in 1978 on moving the team--which included the assertion that Washington's "black people...put up such a chant they'll scare you to death"--led future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to bolt for the California Angels the next year...
...millennium once before, and the records from that one don't specify much about the event. We really don't know what'll happen when the end of December rolls around. That's the whole idea behind the Y2K bug hype. The possibilities for disaster are real enough to scare...
Bobby gets a lot of tough love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has "two personalities," says his stepmother Willie. "He's a con artist." His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a.m. Later his father told him to do something, and Bobby refused. "I got tired of hearing what he wasn't going to do," says Bobby Sr., who smacked him with a stick, hurting his feelings more than anything. Bobby walked to a gas station and called police...