Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thrill of the afternoon came when Dartmouth freshman Charlie Hotchkiss, who was making only the ninth jump of his career, landed 39 ft., 9 in. from the target center. Hotchkiss used a Derry Steerable chute, which allows more control over horizontal movement than the chute used by Weatherly-White...
...fast as he found them, Marvin played them. "You can't imagine the thrill," he says, "of knowing I was the first man to hear them since the 18th century." Back at the Escorial, Marvin pried loose 33 additional sonatas, picked up more in Barcelona and at King's College, Cambridge. Last week's recital revealed Soler as a composer of technical virtuosity and sharply contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic...
...anonymous Romeo, under the pseudonym "Piano Red" pleaded, "Dorothy, my valentine, let the touch of thy finger thrill my life's strings and make the music mine and thine." "Zoe, my valentine," received a briefer message: "Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness," from "Daphnis...
...week's end the papers, thirsty and cunning in a news-dry holiday period, were still going strong. Everybody but the cops was enjoying the thrill. But there was not a man in his right mind who dared to buy a cheap watch, a small piece of pipe or a pair of red socks...
...image is shattering in its simple physical force. Again and again, Kurosawa sends a dark thrill through his audience with a touch of sensuous physical reality. A reflection of flames plays upon a young wife's cheek, explaining its softness. An old man speaks, and the spectator can clearly hear the slobber as it slides up and down his throat. Effective as it is, there is nevertheless something tiresome in all this sensuality. In The Magnificent Seven, as in Rashomon, Kurosawa has provided a feast of impressions, but has skimped on some of the more essential vitamins. The characters...