Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year the rule restricting the challengers to materials obtainable and technology available in their own countries has been rescinded, which may have helped bring about the record turnout of foreign entries: three Australian, one French, one Canadian, one Italian and one English. "The more the scarier," frets Commodore Henry H. Anderson Jr. of the N.Y.Y.C.'S Cup Committee. Not that a realistic chance of victory has ever been central to the quest...
...kids who hang out in the center of Still River where I grew up are getting scarier and scarier. It's not just their short hair. They don't really look like people--the guys are bald monkeys and the girls kewpie dolls. What would Margaret Mead have thought? But they saw only a fat woman with braids, peering at them. I scrammed...
...Here the central role is taken by an unnamed black cat who once upon a time on a dark, dark moor takes a journey through a dark, dark wood to a dark, dark house, up dark, dark stairs . . . Ruth Brown's spooky read-aloud book pretends to be scarier than it is: even the youngest listener should be delighted by the punch line. The book's mysterious power is engendered by the illustrations of weed-choked gardens and abandoned, echoing halls, of mullioned windows and blowing curtains-a child's portion of gothica, easy on the frissons...
This is not exactly a novel scenario; the scarier financial writers have been mulling it over for years. But there is something brave about Rollover It undertakes to explain, in dramatic terms, how the international monetary system functions and to speculate on how a monkey wrench could be inserted into the computerized, satellite-linked works by which currency is instantaneously traded round the world. Someone whose most sophisticated investment was a flyer in 1944 war bonds may not be able fully to assess these maneuvers, but it is nice to be asked...
...slow-witted ball-player of Bang the Drum Slowly, Travis of Taxi Driver and Jake of Raging Bull all share a public-ness of neurosis that make De Niro's roles almost painful to watch. Duvall keeps it inside, waiting to explode. He is, in a way, almost scarier, because the energy is all potential, temporarily under wraps. The consiglieri of Godfather I and II, the capitalist visionary of Network, and, most of all, Col. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now can never exactly make clear--as De Niro always does--what has gone wrong inside and what that means...