Word: horror
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...have spotted seemingly healthy children in the distance playing on small lawns of modest homes. As you approached, you would have seen their wounds--the gashes in their faces and the bullet holes in the sides of their heads. And they would have kept on playing, oblivious to your horror...
...would not have entered the Twilight Zone. You would simply have caught young Rick Baker having fun. "I liked people to believe the makeup I did was real," recalls Baker, a horror-movie fan who at the age of 10 scrapped his plan to become a doctor for the dream of becoming a Hollywood makeup artist. "There was one guy I made up with this horrible burn. He went home, and his father was hysterical...
...Even as Stephen King professes affection for his editors and publishers, his plan to make his next novel available online is sure to be breaking hearts at Simon & Schuster, the horror scribe's longtime publisher...
...children, who were glued to the TV. In desperation, she yanked the set out of the wall and tossed it out a second-story window. Hours later she guiltily found it lying in a heap on the lawn. She brought it inside and plugged it in. To her horror, it still worked. "Damn!" she said. "You can't even kill the sucker...
Julie Bargmann sees beauty in land littered with mine refuse and scarred by acid-laced waters. At an abandoned coal mine in Vitondale, Pa., she is creating what she has dubbed a "regenerative park" to capture the horror and the beauty of its industrial legacy. "New parks aren't all that different from the tradition of [Frederick Law] Olmsted parks," says Bargmann, 42, referring to the architect of New York City's Central Park. "Olmsted was actually constructing places that were part of urban life. Our culture is now one of postindustry. Parks need to express that aspect...