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When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.

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Skeletal replicas of the terrifying mosasaur, a Komodo Dragon relative with a six-foot jaw; the saber-toothed salmon; and other extinct species greet visitors in the museum’s entrance hall.

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As Laura, the foster mother in “Bring Her Back,” Ms. Hawkins turns the smile up to terrifying.

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“It had everyone terrified,” he said, saying the neighborhood over the years has had a high concentration of people who have died from cancer and respiratory illnesses.

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“They were terrified,” Daniels said of the visa-holders, given the weekend uncertainty over the new rules.

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