Word: thrill
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy compared to retrieving the carcass. If the crocodile was shot in water, he says, "We'd draw straws to see who would have to dive in and get it. You'd go by touch and hope it was killed." But the risks were all part of the thrill. Nowadays, he says mournfully, "You can't do anything without a license. You can't even smoke in the pub anymore...
...involve a sock in the mouth, leading Mike to one of two responses: kiss or kill. And every smooch is a heavyweight event. ("I kissed her so hard I hurt my mouth this time.") Sex is violent, and violence sexy. They are the two things that give him a thrill. And once in a while he can combine the two. "I don't hit women," he genially assures pearly Shirley Eaton In The Girl Hunters. "I always kick...
...This captivating exhibition gives a sense of what drove Maar to that obsessive hoarding of memories; of the giddy, dangerous thrill of orbiting, touching?occasionally guiding?artistic genius in all its searing intensity. It was Maar's glorious tragedy, and our good fortune, that she flew so close to the flame...
...Even the industry's most diligent critics, like Kathy Fackler, who maintains the Saferparks.org website, acknowledge that the odds of injury on a thrill ride are low. Millions of people rode the 7-year-old Rock 'N' Roller Coaster without serious incident before this week. But short of conducting echocardiograms on every child who wants to ride, says Dr. Arno Zaritsky, of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, there is no way to know who has a hidden heart defect that might not withstand the ride's quick 0-60 mph acceleration, stomach-churning corkscrew turns...
...showing how movies could be both wildly vigorous and eye-poppingly artful. The admirers of these films had to search out their treasures in specialty video stores and, for the pure experience, in ratty theaters dotting the Chinatowns of major cities. But that was part of the Hong Kong thrill. Seeing an in-his-prime Jackie Chan action film on Canal Street - where the locals chatted and noshed through the movie, and you always propped your feet on the seat in front of you, to keep the rats from breaking your concentration on the martial marvels on the screen...