Word: scarely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...profound effect on her approach to both private and professional life. "You reevaluate your priorities," she says. "Certain things become more important--friends, family, that sort of thing. Things that used to make me mad now just don't faze me. Things don't faze me, things don't scare me. Things get put in perspective...
...those and other signs of a weak economy scare the consumer away from spending the tax cut and Social Security benefit increases, there is little to pull the economy out of the recession. Business investment continues at a very low level, and it is unlikely to pick up without new consumer spending. Alan Greenspan, a New York-based economics consultant and sometime adviser to the Reagan Administration, said that new business orders were "somewhat worse than I would have expected them to be at this stage. We should have seen a turnaround in new orders for durable goods...
...first and final glance, Poltergeist is simply a riveting demonstration of the movies' power to scare the sophistication out of any viewer. It creates honest thrills within the confines of a P.G. rating and reaches for standard shock effects and the forced suspension of disbelief only at the climax, when we realize that the characters are behaving with such obtuseness precisely because they are trapped inside a horror movie. On the plot level, Poltergeist is a warning against trying to build a mobile modern life over the . unquiet graves of the past. The picture can also be seen...
...house he had to share with three mischievous younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under...
...persistent, Director, that it won't even be difficult to skirt the spirit of the Constitution once the public is sufficiently whipped into a "homosexual scare." No one will argue that Constitutional rights are absolute, on our side is the old adage that freedom of speech doesn't permit a scream of fire in a crowded theatre. "Negative social pressures" may well prove effective in covertly abridging gays civil rights. While supporting freedom of speech for gays, we will work hard to harass anyone who listens to gays' public speeches, while supporting freedom of the press for gay publications...