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...raining, even pouring, but we went to the stadium anyway. It really made no sense, and we knew it, so thick were the forecast bands of precipitation. But with the scarier storm of a players' strike on the horizon, to neglect the tickets in our possession seemed suicidal...
...surprised? -- still has masters. These new barbarians at the gates of international commerce may have the geeky, high- water-pants look of the typical math grad student, and they may caress their Sun Microsystems workstations rather than I-got-mine mobiles. But nearly everyone agrees that they are even scarier than the gunslingers. They are "math jockeys," "nerds," "pop eyes," "quarks," "techies." Call them quants, for quantitative analysts. They are odd birds indeed, the field biologist discovers, and . . . Hark, here...
...third game proved scarier, though, as Dartmouth battled back to beat the Crimson 15-9, for the squad's first loss to the Big Green since anyone can remember...
...band, and onstage she looks ethereal. Offstage her anger is like an exposed nail; it catches and tears at everyone who brushes against it. As the result of an operation, Emma begins to recover her sight, and curiously that renders her vulnerable. A world of blurs and shadows is scarier to her than the darkness she has known. One of these developing shadows, as it happens, is that of the man who murdered her upstairs neighbor. This means, of course, that he is going to stalk...
...intoxicating lure: in one shot he was doing upside-down situps, hanging from a chopper, when a crew member noticed that he had no safety belt. Stallone was bothered most by scenes filmed on a seven-story indoor wall at Rome's Cinecitta studios. "That was a lot scarier than the Alps," he says. "There's something about knowing that the floor is there and you could go splat at any time...