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Word: scares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love horror movies and I love a good scare. So, being too impatient to wait for the Thanksgiving release of Tim Burton's new horror film Sleepy Hollow, I figured I would visit the source of inspiration for Washington Irving's story and now, the new movie. I would take a tour the anachronistic haven for the ghouls and ghosts that Washington Irving captured in writing 150 years ago: the true Sleepy Hollow. I set out on a mission to hunt out all the ghosts I could find. I was determined to track down the spirits of Sleepy Hollow, find...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...would retreat to darkened movie theaters in the hope that The Blair Witch Project or Scream would offer the scare that I was looking for. But I was living in the eerie center of a real life ghost story the whole time, and never appreciated it. So when I took the opportunity to return home this past weekend, I was determined to maintain a vigilant awareness of all the ghosts and ghouls that would cross my path. If Washington Irving could see them, and Tim Burton could see them, I certainly wasn't going to let them evade...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...been entirely unsuccessful. I will admit that I was even beginning to have my doubts that I would see anything that qualified as otherworldly. But I figured if what I needed was instruction in how to scare myself out of my wits, whom better to turn to than a group of impressionable youths that still believe in the boogieman? But as it turns out, it takes a lot more than a tour through Tarrytown to scare third graders...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...quarter, Harvard scored two touchdowns, including a two-point conversion, to take an 18-14 lead at the half. Holy Cross cut the lead 18-17 early in the third, but then Wilford's 12-yard touchdown gave Harvard a more comfortable lead. The Crusaders gave the Crimson a scare when they drove to the Harvard 16-yard-line in the final minutes. But the Harvard defense held Holy Cross on fourth-and-10 to preserve the victory...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football Seasons In Review | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...life is threatened, his ex-employers hire thugs to stalk and scare him, and his wife leaves with their two daughters; he loses everything for a chance to set the record straight and doubts whether the price was worth it. Meanwhile, Bergman can't get Wigand's interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first...

Author: By Rheanna Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Where There's Smoke | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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