Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waiting were filled with long school days that included, after a quick stop at home for dinner, a 20-minute bike ride to a cram school for extra tutoring. As they rode home in the dark through the empty countryside, the eerie sounds of frogs and crickets would sometimes scare the brothers into frenzied pedaling. Street stickball was a welcome interruption. And whenever he could, Da-i would sneak off to the neighborhood store to leaf through comic books...
There are HIV-positive men who talk about having put their feelings on hold from the day they first tested positive. Some even hid behind the virus as a lethal scare tactic, a way to fend off attachments with friends and family that they weren't sure they could handle. (One more paradox of the epidemic: even the Jolly Roger can be a flag of convenience.) Now they realize they may have to go back into the world and forge the kind of attachments that get you through a lifetime...
...holiday Wes Craven wants to be home for is Halloween. Even on Christmas he'll try to scare you. Here, the auteur of A Nightmare on Elm Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just...
...large middle ground--particularly the PG rating, which might well include everything from Boy Meets World to a racy episode of Seinfeld. In truth, the system seems motivated less by an urge for simplicity and more by a desire to avoid the red-flag V rating, which would probably scare off many advertisers--and, once the V chip comes into operation, erode the ratings of violent shows. "I think the industry has gone out of its way to develop a rating system that will not tell parents whether there is violence in a program," says Kathryn Montgomery, president...
...Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...