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Sometimes, though, being recognized as my father's daughter is a nice experience. It is a thrill to me to meet people who admire my father. When I sectioned for an English course this semester, the head section man told me that the section I wanted was really crowded and would I mind choosing another time. I did and handed in my slip. "Oh," he said, "Are you related to Professor Bloomfield?" "Yes, he's my father." "Well in that case you can have any section you want. In fact, you can even teach a section...
Dark Mood. The movie does not state this message directly. Instead, it sifts through a succession of exquisitely made thrill sequences. Early on, the mood is farcical: Waldo loosening the wheels of a rival barnstormer so that he must crash-land in a pond; Waldo disastrously trying to perfect the crowd pleasing trick of transferring from moving car to low-flying plane by means of a suspended rope ladder...
CLEVELAND 105, PHILADELPHIA 102; STEELERS BLAST BILLS; SEAVER HURLS TWO-HITTER- such is the stuff of which basic sports reporting is made. As a weekly newsmagazine, however, TIME has never wanted to deliver to its readers a day-by-day account of what TV calls "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Rather, as Sport Writer Philip Taubman puts it, "our contribution can be to go into stories with more depth or come at them from another direction." So it is with Taubman's cover story this week on Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose...
...parents, a textile manufacturer and a marriage counselor, felt a thrill of their own. "They thought they had a young genius on their hands," Horowitz recalls. "They still think...
Horowitz was happy there. He enjoyed the long hours of mindless work, and still does today. "Science is far more tedious than people realize," he says. "But I have a high boredom threshold, and a low thrill threshold. Looking through a telescope might sound exciting, but you're not watching galaxies explode. There are very exciting times, but those times are few and far between. You have to be happy in between...