' With visitors looking on agog, Will theatrically describes a recent experience of 'feeling a sudden chill in the house as the lights refused to work', and of the current owner 'walking into the icy basement and feeling a hand running down her back'.

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Harryhausen called his format "dynamation, " and though it looks somewhat crude by today's computer-generated standards, it still packs a punch -- and other filmmakers remain agog by Harryhausen's abilities.

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Matching a row over MPs' expenses in Britain, Greenland has been agog at revelations about politicians' extravagant lifestyles produced by journalists using freedom-of-information laws.

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