Word: scares
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...scare word-psychologically laden with history and anguish-rather than a sensible description of what could happen in a modern U.S. economy. No one talks of a 50% drop in national production, or a 25% jobless rate-the experiences of the 1930s that gave the word depression its menacing ring. Indeed, if the current downturn ever approached such severity, the great majority of economists are confident that the Government could forestall a repeat. Says Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research: "If we really found ourselves falling off a cliff, there is very little disagreement about...
...saltaholic?" the insinuating voice asks, as the TV camera eye interrupts the hapless soul at his repast and observes him dousing dish after dish with a blizzard of deadly sodium chloride. It is a scare-the-consumer ad for NoSalt, a brand-new, fast-selling salt substitute. And a prime-time sign of the times. For salt has just pushed to the fore as the guilty food of the year- and maybe of the decade...
Schmoeller's direction is often trite and at best haphazard, including one scene in which the camera backs away from someone walking in the other direction. Apparently unsure of his ability to convey the proper atmosphere, he also sends to overemphasize. After Jamie's biggest scare, Brandon comes over to her house to comfort her. While she sits in the hot tub, her troubles oozing away. Brandon fixes a snack in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Derek lurks in the bushes, watching all. When Brandon finishes slicing some cheese with a knife better suited to slicing through jungle, he rams the instrument...
...hear your name and you go in, feeling empty, like you haven't eaten and you don't want to, and a doctor and a nurse lie you on a table and put your feet in stirrups and do things with soft warm hands that scare you until they give you the sleep you asked for and you wake up somewhere else, recovering and alone, feeling fine and betrayed in a strange place...
Fairfield's citizens blew whistles, banged pots and rang cowbells to shoo the flocks. The starlings stayed. Aerial explosives failed to scare them off. A captured starling, rumor has it, was strangled, his death squeals recorded, and the tape played over loudspeakers. The birds were only briefly gulled...