Word: thrilled
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...suspect that if Imus had been talking about a men's basketball team, he would not have been so colorful in his comments. Some men seem to have a problem with successful women, even though men still hold most positions of power. I have never understood what thrill there is in degrading another human being or why I should tolerate it. I learned just the opposite in Sunday school. Ellen Linderman, Carrington, North Dakota...
...only place that Hoagland has been able to perform. He remembers with fondness a slightly embarrassing role he played as a fairy in a Huntington Theatre Company production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “It was a thrill because I was in a professional show with Tony [Award] winners, but I was standing on stage in my underwear with ten other fairies singing fairy songs,” recalls Hoagland. After college, Hoagland plans to move to Hollywood and try his luck on the silver screen...
...suspect that if Imus had been talking about a men's basketball team, he would not have been so colorful in his comments. Some men seem to have a problem with successful women, even though men still hold most positions of power. I have never understood what thrill there is in degrading another human being or why I should tolerate it. I learned just the opposite in Sunday school. Ellen Linderman, CARRINGTON, NORTH DAKOTA, U.S. Where are the feminists? Why haven't the leaders of the National Organization for Women been front and center protesting the sexism of Imus' remarks...
...sorts of awards for Jennifer Hudson, and Lord knows it's got zazz. But Bill Condon's movie about a Supremes-like girl group lacks the thrill and threat of the 1981 Broadway musical sensation on which it was based. The picture has a second-half sag, maybe because it added so many new songs and story lines to accommodate all its stars. Nice try, guys; near miss...
...students and townies here returned to classes and volleyball and walking their babies and dogs, they were, to borrow from a poet, "making the best of their way back to life/ And living people, and things they understand." Yet how strange to pass suddenly from the year-end thrill of a spirited campus to the horror of a mad gunman, to the glare of the global media and to blinking back toward something familiar. "And I don't think it's going to be any less strange anytime soon," says Turnage...