See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Quicksand has been a favorite trope in Hollywood movies for years. Many ...

If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. You won't sink in—at least not all the way. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people under the ...

Daniel Engber is a columnist for Slate. The fourth-graders were unanimous: Quicksand doesn't scare them, not one bit. If you're a 9- or 10-year-old at the P.S. 29 elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., ...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines quicksand as “sand readily yielding to pressure; especially: a deep mass of loose sand mixed with water into which heavy objects readily sink.” In the movies, ...

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Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture – ...

Quicksand has a lethal reputation: a surprisingly high percentage of movie villains drown in it, and quite a few heroes have saved a damsel in distress from a silty, sloppy end. But quicksand is much ...