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Word: scariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size and intention, Rowlandson's work found echoes in Europe. Particularly so in the efforts of Goya, who sometimes drew on English satirical prints as sources for his own graphic work. One can detect more than a few appropriations of Rowlandson in the Caprichos. And one of Goya's scariest images, They Preen Themselves -- one demon giving another a pedicure -- seems to come from Rowlandson's group of a woman cutting an officer's toenail in The French Barracks, 1786, though how Goya actually got to see this particular Rowlandson is a mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Pursuits of Pleasure | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...Adults need bedtime stories too. This one, about a man who turns into a huge insect, was the decade's scariest. And the most affecting, because director David Cronenberg made it a parable about how little we know of the people we love, and how much we still love them as they slip out of their control and ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of the Decade: Cinema | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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