Word: thrill
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...river, where restaurants zealously compete for customers, I choose Red City Seafood Restaurant (look for the ship's hull protruding from the second floor). Lording over the outdoor live tanks like an executioner, I pick the creatures doomed to become my meal. Vegetarians don't get this kind of thrill...
...junior who whines when her country-club sport doesn’t make the front page never really did much for me. And even the most exciting moments—like Tyler Kolarik’s wrister on Saturday that ended an epic ECAC Championship game—thrill me but never make me wish I were in the thick of the action...
...guilty thrill to watch Mackey trample sleazebags and their liberties like a skinhead rhino--you feel complicit when he crosses the line, but he does get results. Mackey's rival, an ambitious precinct captain (Benito Martinez), is principled but ineffectual. Between them is Detective Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder), a middle-aged black woman in a white boys' clubhouse who keeps her own counsel...
...Before leaving China, Bush toured the Great Wall. "Same wall, different country," he said of the 27 years since he had first visited when his father was U.S. representative to the Middle Kingdom. The father and son had dinner 15 hours later back in Washington, which was a thrill for 41 who could tell old stories about a country he remembers fondly. For the current president, it was undoubtedly a chance to finally let his tongue go free...
Journalism, like any other investigative profession, has its share of thrill seekers. Daniel Pearl is not one of them. Colleagues and friends describe the Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief as a seasoned correspondent who never fails to put safety first when reporting in dangerous places. So when Pearl--who had traveled between Pakistan and India over the past four months on the trail of a variety of terror-related stories--didn't check in as expected on the evening of Jan. 23, his editors had reason to be alarmed...