Word: thrill
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...student-athletes, the mourners understood the intrinsic value of a team. They knew the bonds formed by shared struggle and pain, strengthened in losses and celebrated in victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
Part of the thrill of reading his tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...Cholla where he got his political start, he is no longer a hero. Just ask Ko Seong Ju. More than 50 years ago, Ko worked the printing press for a local newspaper that Kim was running. Kim once gave him a ride along the beach in a jeep, a thrill at a time when few people in the country had cars. Despite the fond memories, Ko now complains that Kim has done little to help the struggling local economy: "We expected a President from this region to do something for us. Now things are worse than before." Having ignored...
...great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work of Urs Luthi, Andy Guhl and Norbert...
...Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive as Camp; its Victorian-era salesmanship made it simultaneously real and fake...