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Word: thrillers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mick refuses to die; he has resurfaced in Freejack, the sci-fi thriller about the manipulation of dead bodies in a futuristic nuclear wasteland. If he's hoping to achieve some type of motion picture coup, he might be well advised to try again, judging by the movie's reviews...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Mick in the Movies | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...fact, The Deep End possesses a fairly suspenseful plot--it is billed as a "psychological thriller"--and Crutcher makes it believable by drawing upon his experiences as a therapist for abused children. He uses shock value to interest his reader, relying on the same brand of nauseating descriptions as Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: Deep End is Shallow | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

These scenes are from Basic Instinct, a cop-and-copulation thriller starring Michael Douglas as a San Francisco detective on the trail of a serial killer and Sharon Stone as a bisexual novelist, a suspect in the case, with whom he has a convulsive affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Became of NC-17? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...Quayle, as the series says, "expresses approval and glee" at some of his wife's "mischievous" potshots, then he is likely to be delighted by the political barbs she has included in her soon-to-be-published thriller, Embrace the Serpent. Written with her sister Nancy Northcott, the book features imperialist Russians and drug-running Arabs conspiring to replace a dead Castro with another evil Cuban dictator. Readers who can get past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice Presidency: Second Look at a Second Lady | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

CINEMA Nanny, get your gun: a thriller serves up the au pair from hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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