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...officials; their mission may be to find ways of fulfilling economic, educational and social rights. This mission, he said, is "the glorious opportunity of this generation to end the one huge wrong of the American nation-and in so doing to find America for ourselves with the same immense thrill of discovery which gripped those who first began to realize that here, at last, was a home for freedom...
Tomb of Ligeia. If Producer-Director Roger Corman had anything on his mind more substantial than cobwebs and curdled blood, he might easily extend to others the excitement he creates among a small but thrill-thirsty band of followers who await each Corman film as though it contained fresh plasma. They seldom have to wait long. At 39, Corman has made more than 70 movies. The best-known are his macabre, shimmering little quickies gleaned from the works of Edgar Allan...
Theoretically, it was a thrill-packed, down-to-the-wire contest, with the Crimson's Tom Bilodeau breaking up a 9-9 tie with a clutch single in the bottom of the ninth. But the few faithful fans who stuck it out for the full three-and-a-half hours were too weary, too jaded, to be thrilled at Harvard's victory. One of them did manage a tight, ironic smile...
...Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith to him for a while; once, before an audience, he performed a spontaneous painting called Fire. But the thrill of illusion proved more challenging than any pure struggle with oil paints...
...Hood's Hood," the puzzlephile sees nothing but red-506 pieces of it. Or if he prefers white or brown, he can work at two vicious circles teasingly entitled "Snow White Without the Seven Dwarfs" and "CloseUp of the Three Bears." For those overburdened with leisure time, the thrill in working out such finger exercises is the assurance that no deadlier way to kill time has yet been discovered...