Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happiest and most energized during a campaign, when he was asking for love and approval, and never more so than when he was asking for it against the odds. After his re-election in 1996, his friends wondered how he would face the prospect of never again knowing that thrill. They needn't have worried. Bill Clinton has found a way to get back into campaign mode after...
...chases that are another Frankenheimer specialty (Remember Grand Prix?). He loves sending his vehicles screeching through narrow European streets, and he apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies can't quite generate on a computer screen. They also assert the only message this film wants to convey, which is that in action movies it's not what you say but how smashingly you say it that counts...
North Korea's leaders probably calculated the launch would also thrill audiences at home, to set the stage for this week's celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of North Korea by Kim's father, Kim Il Sung. Last week the North Korean parliament, meeting for the first time since Kim Il Sung died in 1994, honored him with the title of permanent President (enhancing the truth of the slogan THE GREAT LEADER IS ALWAYS WITH US). Kim Jong Il doesn't need the title of President. He has used his authority as commander in chief and head...
...colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give the audience a visual lift, a visual thrill...
...family, like everyone's, is unique. But just as all families are different, they are alike in that the path to the past more often than not leads far from home and makes many unexpected turns. Whatever directions it takes, the rewards are great. There's the thrill of the chase, the delight of discovery and always that one mysterious, elusive ancestor somewhere back there just waiting to be found...