Word: frisson
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...reverse frisson that operates when a star of one galaxy travels to another, Diane Keaton's visit to the Vermeer exhibition created more of a stir than the First Lady does when she ventures out. Later, my daughter Courtney spotted the actress having dinner at Restaurant Nora but, having excellent manners as a result of small deprivations, knew better than to say hello. But then Keaton, proving that occasionally restraint pays off, came to our table. She watches Capital Gang and is pleased that there is a woman willing to battle puffed-up men on television. For our part...
Take the case of Susan, recently featured on Montel Williams as an example of a woman being stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Turns out Susan is also stalking the boyfriend and--here's the sexual frisson--has slept with him only days ago. In fact Susan is neck deep in trouble without any help from the boyfriend: she's serving a yearlong stretch of home incarceration for assaulting another woman, and home is the tiny trailer she shares with her nine-year-old daughter...
Darwin's Dangerous Ideais rather toosophisticated to be popular science, yet it stopsshort of where many less scientifically-inclinedreaders would like to go. It will probably pleasemost of those whom it is designed to please: thescientifically literate who are just proud enoughof their knowledge to get a frisson of superiorityfrom attacks on the evolutionary Luddites.Luddites, however, should beware: after readingthis book, you too will be reminded that Darwinismis here to stay, and you will also be reminded ofwhy what frightens...
...Willard White), his younger half brother Pelleas (baritone Francois Le Roux) and Melisande (mezzo Monica Groop), the mysterious girl Pelleas meets in the forest and brings home as his bride. The Simpson connection was coincidental, but the color-blind casting of White, who is black, creates an unintentional, tabloidy frisson...
...budding academic, finally come across a congenial bunch. You've determined that their intellectual work is at a sophisticated remove from anything else you've encountered in your (admittedly brief) career. After doing the political calculations, you realize with a frisson of horror that you can't remember the last time a Critical Legal Studies advocate was tenured anywhere. What...