Word: thrill
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...makes nearly every other form of entertainment seem timid, sullen, earthbound. Kà flies at its own giddy altitude and takes you along for the ride. If you catch the import of every gesture and plot point, fine. If not, you can still feel the lift and thrust, the vertiginous thrill. Either way, it's quite a trip, one that turns an evening at the theater into an exalting hallucination. Kà induces rapture. --With reporting by Steven Frank/ Las Vegas
Manning has the gaudy numbers. Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons, trounced by the Eagles, 27-10, in the NFC title game, is a backfield thrill ride. Even in McNabb's Chunky Soup ads, his mother Wilma steals the scenes. Most important, Brady the matinee idol has the Super Bowl rings, and his Patriots are the deserved favorites. "It's hard to say that Donovan is underappreciated, because he can do it all," says Rex Ryan, defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens, who lost to the Eagles, 15-10, in October. "But if he wins the Super Bowl...
...Rogers turned investing into an international thrill ride in his books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest effort, Hot Commodities, explains how to invest in everything from tin to coffee--with detours into Brazilian sugar farms and Dutch smuggling rings. TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked him for some New Year's wisdom...
...It’s hard when people picked it apart, especially in front of everyone,†Barkett said. “But it was a thrill...
...immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when Cristina asserts towards the end, “though your acceptance will thrill me—it won’t define me. I am my mother’s daughter,†a lump the size of a best screenwriting Oscar wells up in your throat...