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...political assassination, terrorist armies, atomic holocaust and pay toilets do human beings feel a longing to be scared out of their skins? What is this perverse allure of the horrible that in all ages and nations has made men sit at the feet of the taleteller who can summon adrenalin with shadow dangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sleep of Reason | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...friend of mine tells me that the two best in the University are in Sever and in Med School Building A. There isn't actually too much real exercise involved in this, but these banisters are so slippery that the experience is bound to bring on waves of adrenalin rushes...

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: The Daly Papers | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

...have been adrenalin which stimulated those next two racquetmen to victory, but don't bet on it. Sonstein, with his best performance to date, shut out his Cadet opponent...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Aquamen, Racquetmen Bombard Army | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Jaws's appeal is different from a lot of other horror movies and an afternoon of adrenalin-whirling escape. The difference is that it can really happen. While skeptics could nervously laugh off The Exorcist because, after all, what civilized person really believes in demons, no sane person can doubt the reality of shark attacks...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: Tooth Decay | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

This voyage began with the booming approval of NATO's Secretary General Joseph Luns. The handshake of this genial giant following the signing of the declaration on Atlantic relations rippled all the way up the President's arm and into his chest like a shot of Adrenalin. When Nixon walked from his residence to King Baudouin's for lunch he spied the guards that so impressed him on his last visit that he had special uniforms made for the White House police. There was so much American laughter that Nixon abandoned the scheme. But there must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happiness Under Red Stars | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

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