Word: thrilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Bill Murphy continued to thrill spectators with his magnificent diying. Behind by one-tenth of a point after the afternoon dives. Murphy turned in the best performance of his career as he ended up nearly 40 points ahead of his closest challenger, winning...
Gapers' Block. Veteran traffic reporters get a thrill out of unsnarling a traffic jam and speeding frustrated motorists on their way. "When I mention an alternative route, I can actually see the traffic swing, and I know they're listening," says Frank Burany of Milwaukee's WTMJ. "A guy has to be clean out of his head not to appreciate it." Often, a watcher cannot do much to unsnarl traffic. Even so, the reports can have a tranquilizing effect on a harassed driver; at least someone knows of his plight and seems to care. After her husband...
...across the river; a man guns him in the back. We don't see a brisk wound-writhe-tumble sequence, then cut to the next scene. We watch the fall, the body drifting in the river, the horse vaguely turning toward shore. All at a distance. No sudden tight thrill, just cool death...
...kids, if you act now, you can thrill to the widescreen, Technicolor destruction of the Nazi fuel depot as millions of gallons of burning petrol light up the sky. There hasn't been so much oil on the screen since the last closeup of Elvis Presley's hair...
...average thrill seeker, if there is such a type, may still be high on LSD. But to serious researchers, it has become as old hat as peyote and marijuana. Meeting last week at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, 200 experts in psychiatry and pharmacology concentrated instead on the many other mind-altering drugs that are far older historically but now seem new because they have yet to be thoroughly investigated...