Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producer's job to keep kids and adults glued to the screen. As The X-Files' Carter easily admits, "Our goal, first and foremost, is to scare people." It's the modern movie director's job to package an old idea with zippy effects so that the audience will think it's seeing something new--and be blown away. During the cold war, even the cheesiest sci-fi filmmaker, like the legendarily dyscompetent Ed Wood, had some moral admonition in mind ("He tampered in God's domain"). Now it's size that counts; sense and scruples don't. As Spielberg...
...University had begun to admit women into classes, although in an ironic historical note, Conant declared, "Contrary to certain scare-heads in the papers, this date will not mark the beginning of coeducation here in Cambridge...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign has turned to scare tactics as the election nears. On Thursday, Yeltsin's top political aide warned that Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader and leading presidential candidate, was plotting to steal the election by voter fraud and threatening a civil war. Although anti-Communist scare tactics have long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent...
...surrogates prowl the country touting his virtues. There are also scores of affinity groups, like Veterans for Zyuganov, Farmers for Zyuganov and Factory Workers for Zyuganov. It's all low-budget, but the message is intense, and stripped of flourishes, it is always the same: As Yeltsin seeks to scare voters about a Communist future, the Zyuganov coalition seeks to keep the focus on Yeltsin's failures. "It could work," says Anatoli Chubais, the architect of Yeltsin's privatization program. "The real standard of living is so low that many Russians are desperate to believe in anyone who promises them...
These speculations gain currency almost daily as Yeltsin reaches for ever more apocalyptic "red scare" metaphors. When the President says, "I cannot let the forces of the past come to power; I will resist their comeback in every way," his aides nod in agreement. "I know what it would mean for your Western view of democracy," says Georgi Satarov, a top Yeltsin aide. "But if there were a chance that Hitler would come to power in America by winning an election, wouldn't you be wondering if it wasn't right to stop that...