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...police, mostly, it seems, to assert the ascendancy of middle-class values over steaming sexual impulse. In the original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned by the outrageous message her nerve ends are sending to her brain. The major difference between the films is Gere's characterization. Jean-Paul Belmondo played the petty crook as a Bogart clone, sardonic and dour. Gere takes his beat from Jerry...
Indeed, a good deal of pop psychology has been written about the tendency of hackers to sublimate personal or academic problems in the immediate thrill of answering a question posed on a terminal screen. In Psychology Today, Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo summed up the hacker's dilemma: "Fascination with the computer becomes an addiction, and as with most addictions, the 'substance' that gets abused is human relationships...
...technical innovations are concerned, most people surveyed wanted high-definition TV signals, which will simply enable them to see more clearly the shows they do not like watching anyway. The brave new world of convenience offered by electronic newspapers, home banking and shopping via TV does not thrill them: it seems that people want to balance their checkbooks with pencils and finger the dresses to see if they really are all wool. This, says the study, is an example of the so-called high-tech/high-touch phenomenon, which means that as technology gets more sophisticated, people seek a counterbalance...
...heroin, which a classmate gave her during her senior year. Soon she was hooked. After two years of college in New York and two more years abroad, Coleman settled in Manhattan. She tried to kick her heroin habit, enrolling in a methadone program. But soon she discovered an irresistible thrill: speedballs, injections of coke and heroin mixed together. She thus acquired a craving for the drug she had once dismissed. "The intense flash from the cocaine was so wonderful that if I only had $20 I'd buy coke...
...prime he tucked away six French Open championships, five consecutive Wimbledon titles and two Italian Opens, scampering across grass and clay with an iron reserve that unsettled opponents and turned everyone else into admirers. But two months ago Bjorn Borg announced that the thrill had gone, and last week in Monaco he played his final tournament. In the first round, facing José-Luis Clerc, 24, Borg bobbed along the baseline like the champion of yore, putting the Argentine away in 77 minutes, 6-1, 6-3. But the next day, against Frenchman Henri Leconte, 19, Borg went down...