Word: adrenaline
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...what? Several minutes or seconds of adrenalin, stretched over 55 meters or two miles...
Onscreen, John Travolta had just raised an Adrenalin-filled hypodermic needle above the comatose body of Uma Thurman and, with desperate force, plunged it straight into her heart. In the audience at New York City's Lincoln Center, where Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was being shown, a young man watched this scene and passed out. "Is there a doctor in the house?" someone actually asked. The film was stopped for nine anxious minutes before the announcement came: "The victim is just fine...
...most intellectual thing about Pulp Fiction and be right. But it also works for the trailer-park kids." It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics. For 2 1(R)2 teeming hours it hits you like a shot of Adrenalin straight to the heart...
Only then did his inexperience show. Adrenalin can do strange things to you, even make you hit a 1-iron 260 yards uphill. Sandy Lyle found that out himself in 1988--he also found the beach with his too-long long-iron...
Both are attracted to the speed, the adrenalin rush of racing down the slopes. "I just try to see how fast I can get down," says Fortier...