Like the New Seekers and pampas grass and terrifying public information films reminding people of the dangers of doing things you can't believe any sentient human actually did in the first place – most notably eschewing plugs and simply jamming bare wires into sockets with matchsticks – sheepskin seemed to be everywhere in the 70s, then vanished.
This week, Japanese authorities released terrifying new information about radiation leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima.
Without the usual signposts of stage directions or scene numbers, the lack of information becomes terrifying in some way – or is it like the space in a therapist's room, where you encounter your own thinking and feeling?
"I'm terrified that the information will be misinterpreted and that people will start to think, 'Oh, great, this is under control.' This is like saying your pet tiger is under control.
Also clear was the 911 dispatchers' determination to keep the callers, and themselves, calm as they deployed first responders, pressed terrified callers for information and assured them that help was on the way.
First, that the media, television particularly, are amplifying devices in which tiny kernels of information become vast, terrifying structures of speculation.
He conducts his research with terrifying thoroughness, he integrates his information with elegant logic, and he renders it into deceptively simple forms.
"When you type in anything to search on the Internet, it's almost terrifying the tidal wave of information you get back," said Kate Bosworth, the actress who is the celebrity face of JewelMint and one of its designers.
In fact, the intent may be so laudable that it's terrifying; there is almost too much information on the E.P.A. site.
Multivariate analysis identified three independent significant factors associated with initiation of vaccine: perception of cancer as terrifying disease, school should provide more information on cancer prevention and comments from relatives and friends having received the vaccine.
