Word: frightful
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...voice and physical features polarize listeners into fright (skinny white boys) or adoration (latter day feminists). Those sallow eyes, sultry voice and writhing midriff in 1996’s “Criminal” video won me; while I had only a prepubescent understanding of the subject, it began a pseudo-sapphic affair with self-loathing women...
...Most Taiwan firms, however, still have a bad case of stage fright. Branding their own products means they may wind up competing with their multinational clients in some markets, which is a great way to alienate their best customers. Taiwan's electronics companies "don't have the courage or commitment to do branding," says Ereca Chen, co-founder of Taipei-based Atelligent Global Consulting. "It's hard for them to take that first step." The companies that do sell products under their own names often stick to tiny markets or small-time campaigns. Mitac International, which manufactures a wide range...
...butterflies in his stomach, no stage fright or sweaty palms. Ronald Reagan is booming over the phone, discussing his hopes and ideas as he prepares for Reykjav?...
...organization called Corporate Air Services. The group, he said, had been supervised by "two naturalized Cuban Americans" named Max Gomez and Ramon Medina who "worked for the CIA." The pair, claimed Hasenfus, did most of the flight coordination, "oversaw all our housing projects, and also refueling and some fright plans...
...Brian Burton's life was turned upside down by a joke. As a composer-producer-DJ working under the name Danger Mouse (often in a mouse costume to ease his stage fright), Burton had a solid career on music's experimental fringe when it hit him: mix the Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album, and you get a gray album. "I was cleaning my house at the time," says Burton. "It wasn't my deepest thought ever." Still, he spent three cloistered weeks in his bedroom translating snippets of Beatles music into hip-hop rhythm and synchronizing...