Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Larkworthy recalls the thrill of her team's stunning victory over Stanford in the NCAA tournament last year, which she enjoyed despite ankle problems that confined her to the sidelines...
...other hand, it is unnerving that I can't quite determine whether it's my own immaturity or whether Harvard is a four-year, sleep-away-camp mixer. Being "boy crazy" and "cliquey" and getting a thrill from under age drinking hasn't exactly faded into the past. At parties, girls still stand in the corner to whisper ("That style is, like, so five minutes ago!") and gossip about recent hook-ups ("Those two together? As if!"). Boys demonstrate their ever-raging hormones by "grinding" with each other on the dance floor, chugging beer...
This may very well be true, but at least they're not two lonely Harvard pseudo-journalists trying to get a cheap thrill out of impersonating said self-loathing, desperate individuals and then trying to justify their behavior with a brief round of dim-witted self-righteousness. BRIAN C. GATTEN...
...then should we vote? For one thing, it's a lot of fun. Not the act itself, but the vicarious thrill in knowing that you had a hand in dumping AI D'Amato or in electing Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A voter watching the returns come in on election night is like a football fan watching the Super Bowl, except the voter knows he actually helped the team...
...known: nothing on the Cardigans' new album Gran Turismo has the unique saccharine thrill of the peerless "Lovefool." But you can't underestimate the album's unusual charms, both familiar and fresh. More than any of their previous work, the album reveals the clash of personalities that enlivens the ensemble: the heavy metal/hard rock lineage of guitarists Peter Svensson and Magnus Sveningsson and the '60s girl-group pop song tradition of singer Nina Persson and producer Tore Johansson. Certainly, the group is far from a mere novelty project of classic pop archivist Johansson; as their First Band on the Moon...