Word: slasher
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...scene is a great one, awesomely played by the two actresses. The way terror can suddenly appear in the midst of banality, the basic irony that is the source of most modern horror fiction whether it be crude slasher pic or elegant Hitchcock classic, has never been more eloquently or economically stated. For Ana, at least, there is relief in hysterically speaking at last of what has been, for her, the unspeakable. For Alicia, however, the friend's nightmare only hints at the one that she herself is to face. Under the terror imposed by the junta, which ruled Argentina...
...real Yale threat, however, is senior guard Edwin Draughan, a slasher who leads the Bulldogs in points (15.7 per game) and assists (4.1). Draughan has started every game since he set foot on the New Haven campus and is an all-around athletic threat from the perimeter...
Unable to make sense of what is happening—he’s stupider than the big-breasted blondes of slasher flicks—David worries that Emily may be somehow directly involved. Whenever he approaches her though, she claims that she is innocent. Instead, she squarely blames her imaginary friend...
...could grow its way out" of debt. She suggests that all options, including spending cuts and tax increases, be considered. Schwarzenegger has repeatedly said he won't hike taxes but has been unable to get Democrats to agree on new spending cuts. And he has not been the cost slasher he promised to be. For example, after vowing to take back $300 million in pay and benefits promised to the prison guards, Schwarzenegger was bargained down to $108 million in savings for the state. (And despite his pledge at Mule Creek, he has done nothing to get guards to testify...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...