Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delighted to be honored with this award," said Hochschild, who spent three years researching and writing his book King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, published by Houghton Miffin in the fall...
Science fiction is a fun-house mirror for a society warped by raging technological advance. Science fiction doesn't want or need to make much sense. It seeks astonishment, terror, wonder, ecstasy and dread. It is spectacular and mythic, an oxygen tent for society's daydreams. Science fiction cordially ignores many vital technologies, such as, say, garbage recycling. Recycling is hugely important, but it has zero science-fictional thrill...
...goals, 28 assists) was one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award for national player of the year. Luongo was an easy First-Team All-ECAC pick, as she provided needed stability to an otherwise inexperienced defensive unit. Her passing ability and trademark slapshot make her a terror at the point of UNH's highly effective power-play unit. She has seven goals and 17 assists in man-advantage situations, a point total second only to Harvard's Tammy Shewchuk (27 points...
...race track, a model of rational planning, goes perfectly. And then, at the last moment, the sappy lady and her yappy little dog appear--mischance absurdly personified--and ruin everything. Remember 1964's Dr. Strangelove as well. How delicately the title character and his ilk poised the balance of terror, how little they considered the possibility that there might be someone out there like General Jack D. Ripper. Best of all, think of heedless Barry Lyndon, sparing no thought for mischievous mischance, which ever haunts him and which too soon brings him to his foolish...
...Currier, source of blocking terror...