"Previously, everyone was terrified," notes deputy photo editor Nancy Lee, a lesbian.
That evening, I'm faintly terrified to note, is a matter of weeks away from being 25 years ago, and for the first part of that quarter of a century, I listened to To Here Knows When so often that it became dulled by ubiquity.
Frantically pointing at the TV screen, which displayed a route map, the terrified teen noted we were over France and told the air hostess she needed to inform the captain that we could safely divert and make an emergency landing in some area of the French countryside that he seemed to know very well as he'd holidayed there the previous summer with some Etonian chums.
He notes the "terrifying" course of political executions, but also claims, cringe-inducingly, that Robespierre "found it deeply painful to stand at the centre of that death-dealing vortex".
"I'm creating work that actively engages with the things that repulse and terrify me," Amelia notes.
And, as Indiewire's Sam Adams notes, thrilling yet terrifying superhuman powers have been used as metaphors for hormonal uproar elsewhere, for example, in Carrie and X-Men.
Brandishing her little red book and hurling top notes about with terrifying precision, she brought the house down with her second-act aria – a career-making interpretation, one suspects, of a scene-stealing role.
And it's terrifying to readers of his notes to learn that, as the financial crisis was unraveling, the government's second-most important banking official had no clear understanding of the executive branch's economic and financial authority.
In the list, they noted, "Burns is terrifying because he will do absolutely anything, and since it's a cartoon, he just might," pointing to "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" and his plans to make the puppies into a tuxedo as proof.
This pressure manifested itself as fear, and I would obsess over the potential horrors awaiting me the terrifying possibility of a flubbed note or, worse yet, going totally blank and sitting at the piano in dead silence, unable to remember who or where I was, or how my piece was supposed to go.
