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Word: scarier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clippety-cloppety, more blood-spattery. Irving's simple three-main-character plot gives way to a convoluted collection of Van Tassles and other conniving townspeople who sustain an even more convoluted chain of mysterious events for the investigative Ichabod to logically piece together. More of a saga and certainly scarier and gorier than the original tale, the film version maintains an oddly light-hearted tone. Flashes of squeamishness from Ichabod, absurd puns and other silly touches remind the audience that its all in good...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepy Hollow, Creepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

YOUR KNEES WILL KNOCK TOO Halloween, that time of pumpkins, candy and little children in adorable costumes. Or maybe not. Is it us, or did the masks get a lot scarier this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Rush | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...tough call which is scarier: the red-in-tooth-and-claw depredations of a remote untamed wilderness--or a pack of Americans out to win a pile of money and look good on TV. Next summer the question should be answered, however, by CBS's Survivor, a million-dollar jungle showdown that might better be called The Real World: Pulau Tiga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Star Is Borneo | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...here's what Rock said about the "assassination" of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls: "Malcolm X was assassinated. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Them two niggas got shot." His take on white poverty: "There's nothing scarier than a broke white man. The broker they are, the madder they are. That's why white people start forming groups and blowing up s___. Freeman. Aryan Nation. Klan. Poor, pissed-off white people are the biggest threat to the security of this country." And his view on single moms: "It doesn't take a scientist to tell when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Osment) only seems geeky. He's literally haunted, a topic he does not discuss. Bruce Willis plays Malcolm Crowe, the infinitely committed psychiatrist who pries the secret out of the boy and makes him understand that the ghosts are lonely too. One has to wonder if audiences eager for scarier visions of the supernatural will respond to this benign tale. But it unfolds with a patient intelligence. The Sixth Sense might not scare you out of your wits, but it could reward them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Sixth Sense | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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