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Word: spooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans: a spook or golem, there...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Pinsky's Worth the Money | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs is the only way to reduce the deficit, which is required under the Maastricht Treaty. The striking workers are trying to spook the government into finding another solution. The problem is there is no other solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE . . . STRIKING AGAINST BUDGET CUTS | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs is the only way to reduce the deficit, which is required under the Maastricht Treaty. The striking workers are trying to spook the government into finding another solution. The problem is there is no other solution. Pride is very much involved. The French are very proud of their public service system. But the government understands that Maastricht requires that the debt be reduced. And there is no other way. These cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE . . . STRIKING AGAINST BUDGET CUTS | 11/24/1995 | See Source »

Adams House's dimly-lit tunnels with obscure wall scrawlings and odd murals may regularly spook visitors. But yesterday the tunnels were transformed into something truly out of the ordinary: a haunted house replete with green monsters, headless ghosts, cobwebs and body-shaking shrieks of fear...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Adams House Haunts Halloween Guests | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

Until every mall theater seat can be juiced and goosed like the ones in Alien Encounter, movie directors will have to rely on mere sight and sound for their scare effects, and moviegoers will have to make do with spook shows like Species. Films, of course, can still do a thing or two that haunted houses can't: develop elaborate story lines, depict complex emotions, lift the audience by means other than hydraulics. Species, written by Dennis Feldman, does some of that, at least in its first hour. This sci-fi horror opus also has the summer's sexiest High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FUGITIVE ALIEN IN L.A. | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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