Word: spicing
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...over 30 years I have gambled on everything from a pin to an elephant and have never won a sausage. I still keep having a go. There is certainly a spice of life in the gambling flutter...
...Just for spice, throw in some colorful players, like the four freshmen who won starting jobs on the 'Cliffe squad, led by Sarah Mleczko, who scored more than half the team's goals in the first six games. Stir in something for body and character, like seniors Karen Linsley and captain Ann Dupuis, responding to the opportunity of the first winning season of their careers by playing like maniacs...
...festival did try to add a touch of spice, which seems to have become de rigueur since Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris stirred things up four years ago. But this year's offering, In the Realm of the Senses, directed by Japan's Nagisa Oshima, was impounded by U.S. customs officials after they viewed it at a press screening. Nobody seemed to mind much, which probably had less to do with indifference to civil liberties than with general embarrassment over the quality of the film. In the Realm of the Senses is like the customs...
...lack of compassion. The charm of Dune lies in showing how an emperor can remain human despite the demands his work places on him. In Children of Dune the protagonist, Paul Atreides' son, takes the road his father would not, and following the visions shown by the spice, forsakes his humanity completely. For some science fiction writers this device has worked admirably: the hero who loses everything to save the race, notably in Cordwainer Smith's "The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdahl," but it falls singularly flat here. It seems that Herbert is repudiating the movement he helped start...
...throne. With this novel, Herbert created a masterful pastiche of Fremen, the inhabitants of Arrakis and the best fighters in the universe, Mentats, human computers, and the royal witches of the Bene Gesserit. Dune follows Paul Atreides as he becomes leader of the Fremen, wins control of the addictive spice-drug melange, which gives longevity and prescient vision to its users and is only found on Arrakis, and wins an intergalactic empire, all in best Errol Flynn fashion. But it also accurately and believably details the training and reserve one must acquire to become an emperor and the political intrigues...