Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pulp drags you along in its aimless, stream-of-conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to lose himself in foreign countries, foreign liquor, hash and lusting after women...
Captain Cory Holbrough, playing in his last home game as a collegian, gave the Skating Dutchmen fans one more thrill on a two-on-one break for Union. The senior flipped the puck into the topright corner for a 4-0 Union lead...
During the press conference, Hanks described the award as both "an amazing kind of thrill" and "an odd pleasure, but a pleasure still...
...rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet ever (with the possible exception of Marianne Moore), he conveyed an infectious, exuberant joy in sheer building...
...films-Being Human, A Simple Twist of Fate, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Scout-that cost $20 million or much more and earn less than $5 million in the U.S., while having scant life overseas. Contrast these with a big-budget disappointment like Last Action Hero, which still attracted enough thrill-kill fans worldwide to come within shouting distance of breaking even. Waterworld may need to gross $450 million to be solidly profitable (after advertising costs and the exhibitors' share are deducted), but it can earn that in all the world's theaters and video stores, on pay and free...