Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While this may not send shivers of ecstasy running up and down the presidential spine, I do believe it to be an instructive statement...
Espionage is the nominal subject, but there are few spine-tingling pleasures in James O. Jackson's grimly fascinating novel Dzerzhinsky Square. His goal is to depict, in the ruined life of one man, the privation, squalor, illogic and naked fear of everyday existence for Soviet citizens. Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief, hangs his narrative on the premise that Soviet soldiers who had fallen into Nazi hands thereby became "tainted" in the eyes of their government and, after the war, faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers...
...characters never appears on stage, but her unamplified voice (Susan Schwartz) provides a spine-tingling presence which at times actually upstages--so to speak--the woman in view...
...puffer fish is a delicacy in Japan, where it is known as fugu. Licensed chefs remove enough poison to make the fish nonlethal, yet leave enough to give a spine-tingling sensation, prickling of the tongue and lips, and a feeling of euphoria...
...SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...