Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are content to make movies-movies that career from thrill to giggle and back to thrill again at 24 frames per second. Nobody does it better; no one has ever done it with quite so much relentless ingenuity. They broke out by going back. Lucas proved with the Star Wars trilogy that the Old Hollywood formula of moviemaking, cagily updated, could work wonders at the box office and in the toy store. His movies are Hardy Boys tales for the space age: they shine like Plexiglas, are as durable as Teflon and have the aftertaste of Tang. Spielberg...
...There's no greater thrill than to be representing the United States to the rest of the world," said freshman Bill Stanley, who along with classmate Darryl Laddin and sophomore Larry Scott are among the 128 invited to the Olympic trials next month...
...definitely felt worse this race than [after] any I'd ever done before," Henderson said, adding. "The biggest thrill came when I turned and waved to the crowd outside of the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Ave I got a huge cheer...
...felt as if it were alive with fleas. She took four showers a day and rubbed her skin raw. A doctor, concerned about her hallucinations, warned that cocaine was severely affecting her nervous system. Last fall, after hospitalization for a coke seizure, she started free-basing again, but the thrill was no longer there. She is now enrolled in a drug-free program...
...morning on Tuesday, my Intourist escort promptly picked me up at the hotel and drove me to the train station. By then, the thrill of being a stranger land had dissipated...