Word: scarer
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Hollywood first became aware of alien visitors in the '50s, when the cold war was at its height, flying saucers were flitting over suburban barbecues, and Americans were feeling, perhaps justifiably, a little paranoid. Among the first of these science-fiction creature features was The Thing, a real scarer in which a huge and extremely unpleasant plant lands in the Arctic, the point man, so to speak, of an invasion by other vainglorious veggies. "You mean we're dealing with a walking carrot?" asks an indignant reporter...
...ability to become invisible at whim. Randall, who plans to revolutionize the scaring industry—think sadistic torture and a truly frightening “Scream Extractor”—is also consumed with jealousy for Sulley, the only one who stands between him and the Scarer of the Day title. Eventually Randall’s envy and Sulley’s good-natured clumsiness accidentally let a human child—gasp!—into the monster world, and by the time Sulley gets the chance to return her, he has grown fond...
DIED. ANDRE DEUTSCH, 82, influential Hungarian-born British publisher who rose from being a bird scarer in Shropshire to publishing Norman Mailer's best-selling The Naked and the Dead; in London...