Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need...
Despite this domination of the field by the Crimson, the most notable win was, according to Ben-Shachar, "five game thriller" in which Bilimoria overpowered Kevin Jernigan, one of the top players in the U.S. Jernigan, a native of California and Harvard graduate, succumbed to Bilimoria's relentless assault in a 17-14 fifth game tie-breaker...
...BAND OF GOLD (HBO) This British mini-series about a group of prostitutes being stalked by a serial killer worked well as a thriller but even more effectively as a grim portrait of life in an impoverished English town. Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa) played a beautiful streetwalker with an affecting, un-Pretty-Woman-ish realism...
...thriller sends the well-worn message--and any budding young Clancy will tell you that a message of some sort is advisable, if not down-right moral--that the world always remains just a skilled hacker's keystroke away from complete annihilation by large balls of fire and other painful things...
...Crimson's next game was against St. Lawrence (0-3-2, 0-3-2). This exciting thriller was a victory for Harvard until the last second of the third period, when St. Lawrence scored a short-handed goal to even the score. Overtime went scoreless, bringing both teams...