Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bible readings were Saratoga's biggest thrill when "Old Smoke" Morrissey hit town in 1861. But not for long. Gambler, dandy, ex-bordello bouncer, heavyweight boxing champion (and later a U.S. Congressman), Morrissey opened Saratoga's first race track, spent $190,000 building his Club House into one of the most enticing gambling mousetraps in the Western Hemisphere. Practically overnight, high livers from around the world began beating a path to Old Smoke's door...
...Thrill of It All presents, among other things, what may be the chicest accouchement of all time: Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
Ross Hunter produced The Thrill of It All, and it has all those little Ross Hunter touches-coy tingles over connubial sex ("Is it your wife's birthday tonight?" "No, but it may be somebody's"), wise-apple kiddies ("Daddy, Mommy's down in the cellar with a man"). But one thrill is missing: the will-she-or-won't-she question that so breathlessly sustained the previous assaults on Doris' virginity in the recent sudsy cycle of Day comedies. Now that Doris has given in and traded maidenhood for motherhood, life is going...
Buddha. Shudder at the spectacle of human sacrifice! Thrill to the dance of the temptresses! Cringe as the prince's eyes are poked out! Weep as the princess commits harakiri! Marvel at the miracle of the thousand lamps! Tremble while the mammoth, four-armed idol splits asunder! Do a double take when Buddha says: "Do not overdo anything...
...even pause to check into his hotel before he wheeled his bike onto the course; he hurtled into a stonewall and was killed instantly. Within 24 hours another amateur was dead, and 20 more were in the hospital. Traffic cops gave up trying to slow down the thrill-crazy teenagers. "During T.T. Week," explained one bobby, "anything goes...