Word: sleeps
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Seoul, in short, is a city of "verys," a place of extremes that demands and enforces toughness. In winter it is bitingly cold, with winds blowing down from Siberia; in summer, so hot that some choose to sleep in the streets. Simply negotiating the city is a task that is not for the faint of body. To cross busy roads, pedestrians must clamber up overpasses or, more frequently, descend into underground mazes that seethe with shops and exits. Thus a walk down three city blocks can become a ten-minute expedition that involves 92 steps down and 88 steps...
Homeowners now eye neighbors with suspicion. Some families sleep in shifts. Others have rigged their homes with booby traps attached to guns. Says Jefferson's state senator, Charles Bond: "We're under siege. We have 800 citizens who are afraid to leave their homes even though they know they are potential homicide victims if they stay...
Nine, ten, never sleep again...
Clever fellow, our fricasseed Freddy. Now he stalks the dreams of his posse's teenage children. A vision of loathsomeness with his moldy black felt hat, scalded face, red-and-green-striped sweater and right-hand glove with steel "finger-knives," he lures each sleeping adolescent to a convenient boiler room (every building in town has one) or into their grungiest fears. And if they don't wake up in time, he executes them. Kind of harrowing, the number of Elm Street kids who die in their sleep. As one boy says, "It's not exactly a safe place...
...most profitable horror series don't want Freddy destroyed. They want him back again next year, for April Fools' or Halloween. That's why, at the climax of Nightmare 4, everyone cheers when Freddy declares, "I am eternal!" The folks at New Line Cinema certainly hope so. They'll sleep better if their teenagers...