Word: adrenalinized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to see mild violence and uncreative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you, although you know them already: there's a drive-by hanging, an in-bed strangulation, an over-the-radio death chase. The camera makes the requisite turns around corners, blood flies freely, but your adrenalin will get pumping only if you are an undemanding horror...
Harvard definitely stepped up its physical play last night. Whether this was an effort to compete with a Hockey East team or because it was the Beanpot and the adrenalin on both sides was pumping is irrelevant--the fact remains that both teams went at each others throats from the opening buzzer. The ice was literally strewn with bodies and sticks throughout the game...
...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...