Word: thrilled
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...Harry Potter" Sparks the Imagination: At a time when our biggest pleasure is watching "reality" television, it seems as if we've forgotten the thrill of going inside our heads. TV execs are no doubt patting themselves on the back as to how imaginative they are being with shows such as the just-debuted "Big Brother." But do we really want to be reminded of aspects of our humdrum lives? Do you really need to relive your freshman year of college ("The Real World"), or be confronted by "Cops" (we all know somebody), or be stranded with the cast...
Some deejays get a perverse thrill out of shifting styles suddenly, clearing the floor and sending startled dancers back to their seats. This expertly crafted new CD revels in that thrill. The song Little Black Spiders comes on hard, like the Prodigy in a back-room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance...
...real sex goes, no high-tech device can ever replace a living, breathing person. Because even if a machine felt real and looked real, it could never reproduce the real thrill of sex: knowing that another being is freely giving herself to you and that at least for a few minutes, you're not alone...
...hard-loving vigilante avenger banging on Hollywood's door with the butt of a .45 and challenging its whitewashing of American reality. In his stead we have his focus-group tested nephew, designed to appeal to a much wider audience but stripped, in the process, of his ability to thrill...
...tomorrow, but soon, and for at least the rest of the year, their novelty is likely to be supplanted by an alternate mode of self-propulsion. Scooters, those nostalgic vehicles of 1950s suburban youth, have been updated and repackaged as urban transport and are being embraced by metropolitan commuters, thrill-seeking teens and those who occasionally find walking too great an inconvenience...