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...BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school...
Technology is identified as the thing that kept him grounded and out of trouble. His descriptions almost deify computers and give them higher powers. Only when he lost interest in computers as a 12-year-old because he was in "a rush to get older," did his life take a crooked turn for the worse. An innocent cigarette addiction picked up while playing "Space Invaders" in his local arcade turns into a dangerous real-life video game where "points were gained by taking chances that others wouldn't. Doing drugs gained points; stealing gained points; blowing things up gained points...
...bumbling leader of this pathetic team is Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), who immediately befriends the confused Bobby. Once again, Bobby finds himself taunted and harrassed by the cruel athletes, but this time Coach Klein suggests that he should fight back. And does he ever. The years of repressed anger rush to the surface, as Bobby visualizes all those people that have hurt him in the past. The result is a leaping, bone-crushing tackle of his tormentor that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag refrigerator man. Coach Klein, sensing the geyser of anger that he could harness...
...hope that you enjoyed the adrenaline-rush of uselessly wasting my Board Plus money, and I'll see you around. You'll know me, I'll be the one logging forgetful classmates out of printers before using them, returning ID cards when I find them and checking my pockets before I leave class. --NEERAJ K. GUPTA
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...