Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...songs themselves, though they never coalesce into any particular logical sequence, offer a good deal of emotional food for thought. Sondheim almost never gives into the simplistic. All 19 songs fall into the relationships genre which is his specialty, treating first thrill breakup and all the shades of happiness and disillusion in between. A few numbers like "Bang!", are explicitly sexual; others fit into a dreamier romantic mode, crooning, "Who could be blue when some-where, there is you?" Others are about frustration, repressed and not so repressed: In "Saturday Night," both singers declare together, "Alive and alone...
THESE ARE the "savage people" to whose heritage May finally gives in. As she becomes more and more obsessed with getting the better of Quayle, May comes to eschew the profit motive for the visceral thrill of sheer, pure, glorious revenge. She studies him, even goes to a lecture. Appalled at the near-manic, hushed crowd anticipating his appearance on stage...
...stunned when I heard we invaded a sovereign state without provocation. I am more stunned as I see my friends, who, caught up in the headiness of a military victory, have become apologists for our invasion. When the thrill of combat subsides, I hope this adventure will become the last instance of America's primitive behavior, as symbolized by General Custer and his slaughter of the Indians. In the future, I urge that we have respect for all life, Cuban as well as Grenadian as well as American...
...just a thrill and an honor to know that those two men have been a part of our program." Cleary said, twirling his Olympic...
...tailback and Carroll Lowenstein threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to me that was later called off because someone on the team was offside. Well, they could take that touchdown away from me but they can never take away the thrill," Clasby remembers. "The last 20 yards your feet don't even touch the ground...