Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic contrast to his stridently partisan approach in the 1970 campaign, the President was the very model of cool statesmanship. First, Bob Hope primed the well-heeled audiences: "I didn't make any phone calls [when I stayed at the White House]; it was just a thrill to hear J. Edgar Hoover breathing." Then the President sounded the theme that is going to be emphasized throughout the campaign: "Peace in Our Generation." But peace with honor. America, Nixon warned, must stay strong. He made a pitch for his domestic programs: revenue sharing, welfare reform, Government reorganization. "They are historic...
Providentially, the opening of The Touch in Cambridge this week coincides with Gould's much-heralded appearance here to receive the Lampoon's Worst Actor of the Year award. Gould's ingratiating good-guy performance at Sanders Theater last weekend, before a stink of cantankerous thrill-seekers (including many bolsheviks and "hippies"), was demonstration perhaps that he is rank only on film, and might live happily and successfully as ice cream man or door-to-door stockbroker. To betoken our good will, we have deleted from paragraph five a particularly gratuitous and leering reference to Barbra "Color Me Barbra" Streisand...
Between Big Tex and the livestock beauty parades lies the heart of every fair: the midway. Texan or otherwise, breathes there a man with soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir...
...Another thrill is laying on your ass in the line and seeing a back seven or eight yards down the field," he added...
...permission from their school to organize a daily two-hour unstructured class, which students could elect to take in place of their study halls. They planned it blithely assuming that the chance to make King Tut journals and cigar boxes instead of wasting time pretending to be busy, would thrill the kids. And besides the fun and games prospectus, they went a step further and assured the kids that there would be no grades, and that the students would be allowed to leave the classroom at any time, without asking teacher. With these ground rules, Herndon quickly discovered that...