Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theoretically, it was a thrill-packed, down-to-the-wire contest, with the Crimson's Tom Bilodeau breaking up a 9-9 tie with a clutch single in the bottom of the ninth. But the few faithful fans who stuck it out for the full three-and-a-half hours were too weary, too jaded, to be thrilled at Harvard's victory. One of them did manage a tight, ironic smile...
...Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith to him for a while; once, before an audience, he performed a spontaneous painting called Fire. But the thrill of illusion proved more challenging than any pure struggle with oil paints...
...Hood's Hood," the puzzlephile sees nothing but red-506 pieces of it. Or if he prefers white or brown, he can work at two vicious circles teasingly entitled "Snow White Without the Seven Dwarfs" and "CloseUp of the Three Bears." For those overburdened with leisure time, the thrill in working out such finger exercises is the assurance that no deadlier way to kill time has yet been discovered...
...slum kids of Oakland's public schools, first heard of the North Carolina plan, he scoffed: "Anybody who'd get involved in that must be crazy as hell." But he did. Now he calls it "the most exciting experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention where you can hope to make a difference"-and helping him discover that "the experience of success is exhilarating...
...visitors return as often as two to three times a month. Artists come in droves, as students to sketch everything from Renaissance Madonnas to abstract collages, as established painters to perfect. Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who haunted the Met as a young man, says: "The greatest thrill of my life is to walk from the Rembrandt rooms and find my Easter Monday hanging on the wall...