Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would not have wondered why their mother got out of the car, leaving the doors and windows shut tight, why the car was still moving forward with no one behind the wheel. It was too much to hope that they never felt the water, or the sinking, or the terror of dying together, alone...
Sequels, like blind dates, inspire a certain terror. We fear they will be losers; we suspect they will never measure up to past loves -- and often intuition proves true. The world, after all, really did not need book and movie versions of Oliver's Story or the films The Godfather III and Police Academy II through VII. Nor did the world hold its breath for the onset, in 1991, of Scarlett, romance writer Alexandra Ripley's 823-page follow-up to Gone With the Wind. Columnist Molly Ivins spoke for most reviewers when she wrote, "I have nothing against trashy...
...Frankenstein evokes no terror, only repulsion...
...Syrian leader also apparently outfoxed Clinton on the terrorism issue. U.S. officials say that in private talks Assad not only deplored terror attacks but twice promised to repeat his condemnation at the press conference, with specific reference to last month's bus bombing in Tel Aviv, which killed 23 people. But he failed to do so and even denied that terrorism had been discussed "as a separate topic." That forced the White House into a scramble to revise the impression. Flying out of Damascus, Clinton told reporters he regretted Assad did not "take the opportunity to say in public what...
...Terror in the Countryside...