Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assurance, and all those pretty people realizing outrageous dreams. Our directors know how to fulfill Alfred Hitchcock's aim: to make the Japanese audience scream at the same time as the American audience. Perhaps they know it too well. A manic roteness now envelops action films; the need to thrill has become a drab addiction. Isn't there more to moviemaking than having your finger on the pulse of the world public? Can't the megalo-melodrama be infused with passion and ingenuity? The answer so far, and with just one exception, is no--not this season. For this...
...date tells PIT project leader Susie Osgood that they are excavating in the site's living quarters and midden section. They have found a network of bedrock sluices as well as "goodies" (Simon's word) that include celadon and Swatow pottery, a wok and Chinese coins. "It's a thrill knowing there's something down there that hasn't been touched for hundreds of years, even if it isn't too much," says Simon. "It makes me want to go home and do research." And he does...
...glorious childhood summers. I played a lot of tennis, which gave me discipline. For the first time, I experienced the thrill of winning a championship. Then I made the transition to a team sport--softball. By the summer of 1954, when I was 13, the softball team began to shape my sense of self. I played with the West Boulevard Annie Oakleys in the Pigtail League in Cleveland, Ohio. The positive attitude of the coaches--one of whom was George Steinbrenner, then a graduate student--made all the difference: they decided we could win a championship. They also taught...
...estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason for anxiety," Percy wrote, "yet it happens the reverse is true...When everything else fails, we may always turn to...the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and the Coming of the Last Days. The real anxiety question, the question no one asks because no one wants to, is the reverse: What if the Bomb should not fall? What then...
...Jersey (pop. 5,000), had become an Alfred Hitchcock crime scene, with two suspects arrested for murders so pointless that their inexplicability was virtually a cinematic device. The vacuum absorbed the attention not only of Sussex County's stunned residents but also of big-city papers and network television. thrill killer, screamed the tabloid New York Daily News over one suspect's photo. victims lured to a remote spot and slain, echoed a rare top-item crime story in the august New York Times...