Word: shivers
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...many as in the Winter Games), the highest number of television viewers (a projected 3.5 billion). But numbers did scant justice to emotions: to the sense of quiet pleasure as one of the first teams to enter was South Africa, here after a 32-year absence; to the shiver of unease as Iran alone paraded behind a man, not a woman, bearing its name; to the bewilderment that met the Unified Team, amid its cacophony of 12 republics' flags. And when Bosnia-Herzegovina appeared, after an eleventh-hour entry, people rose spontaneously around the stands to cheer...
...make the noise in the throes of giving birth, and Pygmies imitate it because other duikers come running when they hear the call. This time, however, the braying attracts a large band of chimpanzees, drawn by the prospect of dining on vulnerable duikers. For a moment I feel the shiver of being hunted...
...voiced by Robby Benson) lives under the curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot. In effect, she is trapped between two wolf men. She can see through Gaston's looking-glass ego, but it takes time for her to find the vulnerability within the Beast's barbaric, heroic grief. He must...
Those of us who shiver at the thought of the destruction of Israel can no longer afford to couch our arguments in cold, calculating terms of Realpolitik. If we rely on these obsolete arguments, we will lose...
That prospect is sending a shiver of fear through the Arab world. The Algerian election represents the first time that Muslim fundamentalists have obtained a majority in a free vote in an Arab country. While some Arab leaders are flirting with reforms, most continue to cloak their disdain for democracy with self-serving warnings about the threat of fundamentalism. Algeria's returns are certain to support convictions that even a little democracy is too risky a gamble...