Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such movies a redirection of sexual drives accents the group's closeness. When faced with a gang war in the streets or a real war in another country, a man doesn't necessarily need a woman in order to come of age. In The Right Stuff, the thrill and danger of flying monopolize the men's attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows...
...aside from organizing the play the Weymouth, Mass native recalls the biggest thrill was seeing the characters speak his words. "I became worried that what I was thinking and what I was writing were not coming together," he says, explaining that his play satirizing the inability of a radical group to get off the ground is not intended to come down hard on idealism of students or on the left. He points out that no politics are discussed on stage. Rather Kenney is criticizing the leaders inability to express these ideals and their tendency to "view bureaucracy as a Saviour...
Harvard is lucky, because it is one of the only universities in the nation where the thrill of victory is spread so thoroughly beyond the elite ranks of varsity athletics. This year the thrill is being spread even further. For Lowell, 1981 was the Year of the Point, 1982, was the Year of the Win, and this year, 1983, is the Year of the Woman. Playing for the Bellboys this season is Alex(andra) Coutler, the first female to participate in House football...
Beyond the Limit is billed as a political thriller, but the politics are superficial and the thrill nonexistent. The vast spaces unoccupied by content are filled with choppy, television-like filming and a heavy-handed musical score. Seldom has so much meant so little to so many...
...ordinary California family. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which he devised and directed, tells of a creature from outer space who is mistakenly abandoned on earth and befriended by three school-age children. "Poltergeist is a scream," Spielberg says. "E. T. is a whisper." The first film means to thrill, the second to enthrall. Both succeed beyond anyone's expectations, perhaps even those of their prodigious creator...