Word: thriller
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Tuesday night saw the women’s basketball team top rival Dartmouth 70-67 in a thriller. For the Big Green, a chance to lock up the Ivy title and punch its ticket to the NCAA tournament was on the line. For the Crimson, this was its last chance to grab a share of the Ivy title—win or stay home...
...children that they are "special." Only trouble is, "special" has a very special meaning at this particular school. The children are, in fact, clones, genetically engineered for a sinister purpose - to serve as organ donors. Sounds like the perfect setup for a kids-on-the-run sci-fi thriller. But Ishiguro's characters don't do rebellion. This writer is fascinated by people simply making the best of their fates. So there are no chases through woods, no baying bloodhounds. Instead, the book takes on a cool, anthropological tone, inviting the reader to study these unusual creatures as if they...
...named Julin Carax. But who was Carax? No one can agree. And why have all other copies of his books been destroyed? And who is that guy following the boy around, speaking in riddles and smelling of burned paper? The Shadow of the Wind is a sophisticated, Borgesian thriller about--and for--those select few for whom books and people, reading and living, are one and the same...
...factory outside Tokyo for nothing wages. All four are lonely, exhausted and miserable. But only one is miserable enough to strangle her abusive husband with a belt. You will think you're loving Out because it's a tense, atmospheric, sweaty, claustrophobic, cutting-up-bodies-in-the-bathroom crime thriller. But it's also a journey through a rarely glimpsed Japan, a lower-middle-class Japan of yen-hungry loan sharks and ragged tatami mats. Housewives don't come any more desperate than this...
You’re talking to your wife on the phone,” Gene Hackman tells Will Smith in the 1998 thriller Enemy of the State. “You used the word ‘bomb,’ ‘President,’ ‘Allah’…the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red flags it for analysis...