Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gaines soon stopped publishing the spook stuff and staked his fortune on Mad. Circulation peaked at 2.4 million in 1973, when the last of the baby boomers were in grade school, but today, with versions of the Mad world view available elsewhere, it is only a third of that...
...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...
Before his death, President Kennedy was so certain of trouncing Barry Goldwater in 1964 that he issued strict instructions to his staff: Don't spook the scenario. Don't say anything that might encourage the Republicans to select someone else. Today, as Democrats around the country salivate at the possibility of New York Governor Mario Cuomo heading their 1992 ticket, George Bush's aides cannot contain their glee. "What a simple campaign it would be," says Rich Bond, the Bush adviser who knows Cuomo best. "Roger Ailes already has the TV spots conceived. Pictures of decaying streets; rotting buildings...
...Austria's avowed desire to have the unwanted guest leave -- and the refusal of Sweden and possibly other countries to which the fugitive spook applied for asylum -- limited his options. Returning to the Soviet Union was an unappealing choice; after all, the presence there of former East German leader Erich Honecker continues to be a sore spot in Moscow's relations with Bonn. According to the German Foreign Ministry, Honecker himself is considering returning to Germany...
...tail a suspect was notably unsuccessful, according to a former classmate. Gates was assigned to shadow a man in Richmond. But the local police became curious about the apprentice spy loitering on a street corner and hauled Gates in for questioning. Hours later, after a CIA instructor intervened, the spook-to-be was returned to quarters at Camp Peary. Gates then traded in his trenchcoat and eventually became the agency's top analyst...