Word: scares
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...familiar with at least the basic outline of the legendary Dracula tale, any reinterpretation of this horror classic could only succeed by either following along in the campy B-movie tradition and playing it up for humor value, or by employing the freakish in a fresh attempt to scare a jaded audience...
Obviously, should the Engineers start clicking on all cylinders, they could yet be the scary team from the ECAC, one worthy of the consensus preseason favorite's mantle. But until RPI finds that level of consistency, the only ones it will continue to scare are its own fans...
When Congress considers NAFTA this week, we hope that it is able to look beyond Perot's scare tactics and the narrow interests of pressure groups to see the good of the nation as a whole. NAFTA is a large step forward, rejecting it would be an even greater step backward...
Still, Rossello dismisses the cultural-colonialism argument as an irrelevant scare tactic. The U.S. is becoming more tolerant of diversity rather than less, he says, and Puerto Ricans will be as free to embrace their own traditions as they are today...
...crossing paths in a series of coincidences so contrived they are reminiscent of a Thomas Hardy novel, and accumulating moving experiences at a mind-numbing rate. They are united by common experience in the opening and closing sequences of the film: in the former case by the medfly scare, in the latter by an earthquake. (This portrayal of L.A. as a shimmering and perilous mirage is so hackneyed and off-base as to induce nausea...