Word: scares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your seat gets a violent rattle. You feel the creature's breath and reptilian tongue on the back of your neck. An icky liquid drenches you; is it someone's exploding guts or your own fear-sweat? The experience is divinely cheesy: 3-D radio, aiming only to scare you nuts. And it works; the crowd happily screams along...
Until every mall theater seat can be juiced and goosed like the ones in Alien Encounter, movie directors will have to rely on mere sight and sound for their scare effects, and moviegoers will have to make do with spook shows like Species. Films, of course, can still do a thing or two that haunted houses can't: develop elaborate story lines, depict complex emotions, lift the audience by means other than hydraulics. Species, written by Dennis Feldman, does some of that, at least in its first hour. This sci-fi horror opus also has the summer's sexiest High...
...worried, though, that the media scrutiny of Marcia Clark and her team may scare prosecutors off other high-profile cases. "We expected a magazine profile or two, but do you expect to see topless photos from an ex-mother-in-law?" he says, referring to a tabloid story about Clark. "Most people who work for this office are not making a lot of money. They have the luxury of doing the right thing. They may think from now on, 'Sure, I'd like to test myself on this big case, but it's not worth it to myself...
...result of the scare, the U.S. Postal Service has halted all mail processed in Northern California -- believed to be the Unabomber's base of operations -- as scores of postal inspectors check as many packages as possible. "After the last bombing, they said it was impossible to inspect all the mail," says TIME San Franciso reporter Jeff Green. "But this latest threat has raised the stakes, so they're making the best effort they...
...returns to his wife and children with a blithe, "Honey, I'm home!" The tootsie is MCA. The wife is Ovitz's list of clients, each of whom must now be reassured that, yes, Michael still loves her best. The children are CAA's Young Turks, who during the scare of rumors dared to imagine a scenario of the agency without Ovitz. Elvis is dead. Oops -- the King is back...