Word: skittishly
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...Kansas City, live animals - bats, rats, snakes, alligators - are real "props" in several haunts, including the Edge of Hell, Arnett-Bequeaith's warehouse, where skittish patrons descend from Heaven to Hell, with a stop in purgatory. The storyline: every day people make choices in their lives that determine whether they'll go to heaven or hell. "My great-grandfather was a pastor," says Arnett-Bequeaith, explaining her inspiration...
...priapic level, the Saw movies are more mature; their characters are marked by their devotion or lack of it, not their horniness. (The writers and directors seem to be saying: No sex, please, we're skittish.) But both kinds of films are puritanical in their take on sex. They're either reluctant to show it, or bound to exact mortal payment...
...tourists could be forgiven if they're still confused. Almost since the slow recovery began, New Orleans has been sending mixed messages, begging the federal government for more financial help and asking the state to send in the National Guard to help battle a violent crime wave, while assuring skittish tourists and convention planners that the city's historic attractions are intact, the hospitality infrastructure is up and running and public safety in tourist zones remains nothing to worry about...
...take a dive similar to those of President Bush, from upward of 70 percent approval to figures in the low 40s - except that while Bush's slide occurred over the four years that followed 9/11, Olmert's came in just four weeks of war. The Prime Minister has looked skittish and indecisive, caught between the impulses of escalation and restraint, and apparently more reliant on signals from Washington than Israeli leaders prefer to show themselves...
...campaign-finance scandals in Washington have made investors skittish about corporations becoming tainted by their donations. "It's easy for politicians and companies to get a little bit out of control," says Andrew Shalit, director of shareholder advocacy at Green Century, a mutual-fund manager that has proposed disclosure resolutions. "A lot of harm can come from that." One thing's for sure. When the harm hits headlines--and bottom lines--attention will be paid...