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...level of base, mindless entertainment--and even then, its appeal increases in geometric proportion to the blood-lust of the reader. Like In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter, .44 appeals directly to the mass murderer in each of us, that frightening corner of the soul that feels a morbid thrill each time the television announcer breaks into Edge of Night with news of some new mindless horror. But perhaps for that very reason, books such as .44 might actually be a public service, a means of measuring, by their very popularity, the current level of savagery in American society...
...trim (5 ft. 11 in., 154 Ibs.) and ?yes?unmarried. As if this were not enough to thrill every mother (and every mother's daughter) in the entire United Kingdom, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, is also heir to the classiest preserve of royal pomp and privilege left on earth: the British throne...
...pilots and fly attack planes as well as transport and passenger aircraft. Other Navy women skipper ships. Boatswain's Mate Juanita Heaster, for instance, is based in Naples, Italy, where she captains a small vessel that ferries supplies out to larger warships. She says she gets "a thrill out of taking a boat out in the rough seas," but still feels a lack of equality. "The men think that women can't do the work," she complains. "But we do just as hard a job as the men do. We have to manhandle the supplies and scrape...
...Duncan Luce, Whitehead Professor of Psychology, said yesterday "election is recognition by one's peers and is very desired on the part of any scientist." Luce, who was elected to the academy in 1972 and currently chairs its Assembly on Behavioral and Social Sciences, added "it's a thrill when you get elected...
...tension becomes oppressive as the walks slowly, step by step across the tiny stage towards her, blackmailing her to give in to his lust. If the actors would take the menace in The Changeling as seriously throughout as hey do in this scene, the play would become a real thrill instead of just light entertainment...