Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dylan was suddenly a singer no longer. He was a shaman. A lot of people called him a prophet. In a way, it must have been scarier than being booed. Everything he sang, said, did or even wore took on a specific gravity that made it harder and harder for him to move. The music became so important to so many people, took on such awesome proportions, that Dylan could respond only with the ultimate sanity: silence...
Nuclear war is but a scarier version of everyday reality in its potential for disruption, eruption, combustion and conflagration. The flow of daily events has the capacity to change the world--for better or worse--to a substantially different and often unrecognizable place. The worlds that we encounter in five, 10, 25, 50 years will hopefully be changed for the better, though history warns us otherwise...
Some attractions are being adjusted. A parade of cast-member "creatures," expected to run twice daily, was still not ambulatory a fortnight ago. The Jungle Book and Lion King shows were getting final tweaks. Dinos in Countdown to Extinction were to be given scarier lighting and infusions of bad breath. The safari ride's story line, about a baby elephant separated from its mother, is lame drama--no match for the amazing beasts on display...
...seriously doubt President Clinton's judgment. His "problems" are not caused by Starr, a far-right conspiracy or former White House employee Linda Tripp. They are the result of a Chief Executive addled by hubris. The only thing scarier than Clinton's maneuverings is the people who think this scandal is much ado about nothing. CRAIG A. KOLLER Kutztown...
...collapse of public security in the country. From the slums of Tijuana to the hilltop mansions of Mexico City, a rising wave of violent crime, kidnappings and human- rights atrocities has gripped the nation. Many refer to it as the "Colombianization" of the country, a reference to the even scarier levels of violence inspired by drug mafias and paramilitary gangs in that South American nation. "We're approaching a state of jungle law," says Guillermo Fernandez, 23, a Mexico City marketing executive who says he was recently mugged--with a uniformed cop assisting the assailants. Even President Zedillo concedes...