Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really a thrill for a soccer coach to see two of his players do so well," Scanlan says. "It's great motivation for my high-school girls to see soccer played at such a level...
...also a thrill for the players to see that their old friends and coaches had taken time out from their busy schedules to watch them compete at a higher level...
...talk to each other enough," she said. Woo added that the meeting's objective was "to remind us why we all went into science--of the thrill of discovery...
...film may indeed rekindle that fervor. In its gaudy way, it could also remind audiences of important issues rarely addressed in movies: the estrangement of genius ("He is better at this," says Joe Mantegna as Fred, "than I've ever been at anything in my life"), the sick thrill of competition (a lesser player stares at Josh with craven awe) and the romance of failure. "Maybe it's better not to be the best," Josh says as the competition heats up; "then you can lose and it's O.K."The movie's subject is unusual, but its themes are universal...
...must seem odd to the duck and deer populations that Americans have paid more than $255 million this summer for the experience of being prey. In Jurassic Park we had the supreme thrill of being hunted for food by creatures far larger, faster, and -- counting teeth and claws -- better armed than we are. With the raptors closing in, we saw how vulnerable the human body is -- no claws, no exoskeleton, no blinding poison sprays. Take away our guns and high-voltage fences and we are, from a typical predator perspective, tasty mounds of unwrapped meat...