Word: feels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of an embarrassment because our friends can't eat here because they feel that they'll be harassed by the checker," said Scott M. Rowen '02 of Adams House...
Orey dramatizes rather than sermonizes. Assuming the Risk, a first-rate exercise of narrative journalism, assembles an eccentric cast of characters. Don Barrett, for example, was a garden-variety white racist as a student at the University of Mississippi ("I do feel that the Negro is inherently unequal," he told a New York Times interviewer in 1963, around the time James Meredith was integrating Ole Miss). In the fullness of time, he became a born-again Christian and crusading lawyer who took up the cause of Nathan Horton, a black carpenter and contractor who smoked two packs of Pall Malls...
...Such activities are bracing, to say the least, whether you are a BASE jumper, a surgeon performing a quadruple-bypass operation or an actor executing a sword fight onstage while spouting Shakespeare. Most of us don't have work that is this invigorating. Engaging in risky activities makes us feel alive. It also satisfies a curiosity about our abilities--and how we handle challenges. It can utterly focus your mind. There's nothing like it. TIM MOFFET Vail, Colo...
...from us. He put a harness on each of us, and we were hauled into the helicopter, which was hovering about 15 ft. above the highest waves. I couldn't even hear it because my ears were so full of water. But when it got close, I could feel the beating of the blades in my chest. I'll tell you, that was a very nice feeling. Shad rode up on the rope with me--we were the last ones out of the water. I just kept saying, "You the man! You the man!" over and over again...
...courtship--making out in back seats and living rooms in rare moments without the kids--you thrill with them. When Lily moans, "I've got two kids. How can I take my clothes off?," you want to buy her a drink. Once and Again has the makings of a feel-good hit. What it lacks is the complexity and daring of Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz's best work...