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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ghosts and goblins in this Halloween conspiracy to scare Americans out of Social Security? These days, it is a familiar coalition: Wall Street greed plus conservative ideology...

Author: By Thomas C. Rollins, | Title: Nothing Learned from the Depression | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard and St. Lawrence, and one of Yale and Colgate--will be shown the postseason gate at the conclusion of tonight's games. The other two are given stays of execution for at least four more days, but it is the prospect of this first fate which should scare the shorts off of seventh-year coach Ronn Tomassoni, fourth-year team manager Andy Gunderson...and every Harvard skater in between...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Trial by Tuesday | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...bombings have one other thing in common: no one has claimed responsibility for any of them. "Maybe this was something to scare us, to put us in our place," said Lynn Cothren, an Atlanta gay activist. Until investigators have a breakthrough or someone speaks up, Atlanta citizens can only wonder what kind of awful message is being sent to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT SOUNDED LIKE A CANNON | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...forgave them for showing him up. Increasingly paranoid, he accused Deng of refusing to sit next to him at meetings. In 1962 he attacked Liu and Deng, screaming, "You have put the screws on me for a very long time!... Now, for once, I am going to put a scare into you!" Mao's revenge came in 1966 with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENG XIAOPING: THE LAST EMPEROR | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...with the cry of "Garbage!" Well, David Lynch must be doing something right. The creator of Twin Peaks describes his first film in four years as a "21st century noir horror film." It has a battered suitcase of references to old Hollywood film noir, the requisite gore for a scare show and, in the spooky presence of Robert Blake--with his pancake white face, shaved eyebrows and sickly smile--an eldritch harbinger of death like the dwarf in Twin Peaks. So whatever that critic may think, Lost Highway isn't refuse. But it ain't revelation either. What's missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MILD AT HEART | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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