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...hair freshly bleached, their nails painted, their high-arched shoes ready for dancing with someone who cannot come." > Pity is the cruel emotion: "If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone...
What's more, the real thrill is in knowing that, after all, Nellie must be the heroine of the piece...
...temporarily putting it out of commission, but Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65, and his bride of six months negotiated the hair-raising 14 miles of pounding waves, treacherous turns and large rocks without a spill. First-Timer Joan Douglas, 23, dug it the most. "It was the thrill of a lifetime," she bubbled. "It's for me. I want to do some more...
...keep him out of it. "The.y're laying for you," warned Newman. "You go in there a hero, and you come out a bum." One of Pollock's last major works was 1955's Search, an encyclopedia of his artistry in joyous Christmas colors. Its true thrill is seen best close up: an endless antipasto of textures, oils stained and then swirled into pastes, squiggles and scumbles, flecks and fissures that the viewer's eye wanders among, jerking with the appeal of each tiny element...
...most first-class surfers, Cabell has only scorn for the "hot doggers" who risk their necks by crisscrossing waves haphazardly. It takes art to stand, knees slightly bent, arms spread, guiding the board along the tube with almost imperceptible foot movements. And only a few ever experience the ultimate thrill. "Once in a while," says Joey, "you get locked so deep in the tube that nobody on the beach can see you, and if a guy were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right over...