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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question, Is pro wrestling fun to watch? The answer is: Not really. It can evince the rude, flimflam energy of its carnival origins, but as a form of pulp culture, wrestling has far less imagination than a decent horror movie or comic book. If you're desperate for mock terror on Monday nights, stick with Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Lords Of The Ring | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...yellow-card warning to Algeria?s Armed Islamic Group. At least 60 members and sympathizers were arrested in what appears to be less of a response to a specific threat or conspiracy, but a pre-emptive strike designed to wrong-foot elements who might be planning a world cup terror campaign, says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. ?France is sufficiently aware of the terrorist threat to have conducted this swoop to put groups prone to terrorist attacks on the defensive, attacking their infrastructure and disorganizing them,? says Crumley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaol! France 1, Algerian Militants 0 | 5/26/1998 | See Source »

With rocks crashing through his windows, an iron spike punching holes through his kitchen door and a mob outside baying "Burn! Burn!," Philip Lo discovered the meaning of terror last Thursday as he cowered for two hours with his family inside a locked bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Burning | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...week, India deliberately concealed its specific test plans and misled the rest of the world. But no one was paying attention anyway, even when the signs of India's intentions were there to be read. The shock runs up our spine because it happened when the age of nuclear terror seemed over. Now the specter is back. Which country will show off its atomic prowess next? Pakistan is certainly tempted. Is another frightening, nation-wrecking arms race brewing? Will we ever devise effective ways to control the nuclear beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

John Romero, creator of Doom and Quake computer games: "The creature in Aliens. There's just so much mystery: Does it rule its home planet, or is it a cockroach in the evolutionary chain of an ancient, superdeveloped world? The sheer terror this monster can cause is overwhelmingly savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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