Word: thrilled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abetted by Candice Bergen, as a thrill-seeking but good-natured deb, they determine to crack the uncrackable safe. At this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration...
...Since I was 10-years-old, I've wanted to be All-American," McInally says. "Last year, when I was picked to the second team All-American squad, well, shoot, it was the greatest thrill of my life...
...steam. They have rediscovered some old fads-panty raids at the University of Michigan and the twist at Houston's Rice University-and some other fancies as well. Among undergraduates at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., rides in large coin-operated clothes dryers are the latest thrill-with the door open or, more dangerously because of the heat, with it closed. Admits Junior Steve Wildey, 20: "It sounds kind of dumb. But after a few beers, it seems like an entirely reasonable thing...
Athletes and sports commentators have always described their calling in grand terms: "the drama of athletic competition," "the thrill of victory," "the agony of defeat." Some have gone so far as to call sports "the moral equivalent...
...hard to pinpoint exactly why a group so united in outrage as the vendors that first Saturday night could be so contented in complacency 20 days later. Many of the more active strikers went back to college, others were no longer fascinated with the thrill of labor-management confrontations...