Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas, 23, dug it the most. "It was the thrill of a lifetime," she bubbled. "It's for me. I want to do some more...
...keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill is seen best close up: an endless antipasto of textures, oils stained and then swirled into pastes, squiggles and scumbles, flecks and fissures that the viewer's eye wanders among, jerking with the appeal of each tiny element...
...most first-class surfers, Cabell has only scorn for the "hot doggers" who risk their necks by crisscrossing waves haphazardly. It takes art to stand, knees slightly bent, arms spread, guiding the board along the tube with almost imperceptible foot movements. And only a few ever experience the ultimate thrill. "Once in a while," says Joey, "you get locked so deep in the tube that nobody on the beach can see you, and if a guy were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right over...
...Most of the Western visitors wasted little time talking politics with their relatives. With more than two years of separation behind them, they dwelt on family matters, cooed over Tante Emma's new baby, or drank a belated brandy to Opa's memory. Only after the initial thrill of renewal ties was there time for furtive whispers about the future. Could the Communists really close the Wall again Jan. 5-the deadline-now that both East and West Berliners had tasted a mo ment of freedom? It was bound to erode Communism's barrier, and to speed...
...known as "El Fenomeno" until he put a little extra on a forehand one day and wound up whistling through a baseball-sized gap in his front teeth. Pelotaris like to compare themselves to bullfighters: the pelota is a charging bull, and the closer it comes, the bigger the thrill. In Miami some years back, one player was beaned and killed, and frontons tried to talk the players into wearing protective helmets. The suggestion brought hoots of disdain. Sneered one player: "Would a bullfighter enter the ring in a tank...