Word: scarely
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...this latter tone, Fincher proves he can make you cringe without blood being spilt. Stylistically, “Zodiac” embodies the directorial elements that made Fincher famous: marvelous cinematography, humorous dialogue, fast-paced scenes, and period music. “Zodiac” was made to scare its audience, but more than that, it offers new perspective on the way our society deals with mass media. In the late 60’s and early 70’s, when the Zodiac killings were actually happening, the media was exploding into the American consciousness with sitcoms, high-production...
...point it was down more than 500 - concerns heightened about the fate of the U.S. economy. A 9% downdraft in Chinese stocks earlier in the day triggered the selling on Wall Street, while some downbeat economic news and an unexpected warning from an old bogeyman, Alan Greenspan, threw a scare into investors...
...along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people in America. Obama doesn’t scare white people. The clean, articulate, and bright guy whom Americans are impressed with is the exact opposite of what Americans expect black people in this country to be.Blacks are violent. Blacks are angry. Blacks are lazy. Things like racial profiling and negative media portrayals are demonstrative of the suspicious way in which...
...Obama doesn’t scare white people. The clean, articulate, and bright guy whom Americans are impressed with is the exact opposite of what Americans expect black people in this country...
...leading up to their semester’s introductory meeting, I overheard countless conversations that were gratuitously hostile. What ever happened to crumpling up flyers and throwing them into the trash (or recycling bin, for the environmentally-conscious)? Did “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” scare our campus so badly that we must now resort to this infantile manner of derision toward abstinent peers...