Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banquet doesn't have the feeling it had on Monday. Time to say good bye to Peking, and the thrill is diminishing fast. It is almost as if the American presidency has been stolen from the nation for a few days, taken off in the mists of China and held there. There is the thread of television that beams back the story of ceremony, what there is of it, and sight seeing, but fails to give a sense of the inner working between Mao, Chou and Nixon. There is less here than meets the eye, of course, but even...
...thrill of discovery quickly wore off. TV crews and reporters were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium's insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents-who had not been given menus-variously described those little orange balls decorating the table's center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines...
...autopsied the five, plus two animals that had received no drugs but had otherwise been kept under identical conditions. Neither of the drug-free monkeys showed any sign of brain damage. But all five of the others, which had received speed doses comparable to those taken by many thrill-seeking youngsters, had irreversible brain damage in the areas around the small blood vessels-similar to the damage found in humans who die from strokes...
...dragooned into taking over her role. The director (Max Adrian) even tells her: "You're going out there as a youngster, but you've got to come back a star." Sure enough, she does, for in the audience that day is the great Hollywood director De Thrill (Vladek Sheybal). While he watches the performance, he fantasizes how he would shoot the production numbers, enabling Russell to imitate the old Busby Berkeley style movie musicals...
DeMars listed the election as captain an his second greatest thrill--next to Saturday's Yale game--and immediately set a 9-0 season as next year's goal...