Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what really frightens you? What terror seizes your body, and impertinently terminates voluntary control over your bowels? The scenario is easy to imagine: one of those early morning (or is it late night) conversations, in which superficial nothings take the form of timeless truths. Sex lives have been aired, reincarnation discussed, but at last you reach the enduring issue. Fear...
...books deserve credit for making menopause a word that can be uttered in mixed company, but you don't have to be perimenopausal to experience a full range of symptoms as you work through these books, from hot flashes of rage to the cold sweat of terror...
...minimalist box. Glass's chug-chug style remains instantly recognizable, but his music has colored and deepened over the years. The Voyage lowers, thunders and rages -- it begins with the same six-note figure that opens Wagner's Die Walkure -- vividly reflecting Hawking's visions of terror and wonder and Columbus' dark and stormy night of the soul...
That goal is not yet within reach in Guatemala. Its current government and the guerrillas have been talking for 18 months in search of a negotiated settlement. But a recent report from the Roman Catholic human-rights office charges that the government "continues to demonstrate the political tradition of terror." Activists in civil rights and grass-roots organizations are still receiving death threats, and in the first six months of this year there were 253 political assassinations. Menchu was only visiting the country last week. She now must decide whether to try to live there...
...general, the direction skillfully manipulates time and distance to create moments of pee-in-your-pants terror. From the ominous overhead shots of Chicago's freeways to the imposing grayness of the University of Illinois, the dark backdrop intensifies the terror. And terror abounds, most notably during Helen's psychiatric exam and her memorable first kiss with Candyman (his mouth is filled with bees). The soundtrack by Philip Glass is appropriately haunting...