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...great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work of Urs Luthi, Andy Guhl and Norbert...
...Dracula into a symphony of thun-der, horses? hooves and whinnies, shouting villagers, shrieking carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized with a thrill that they were in for a splendid summer of weekly drama. Just another conquest for Welles the Boy Wonder...
...Holmes," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Thirty-nine Steps," "The Man Who Was Thursday" - Great Lit Lite. It was very much a boy?s game (Moorhead and Arlene Francis got the rare women?s roles) and the Mercury actors would play it for all its worth, with a thrill in the voice and, one imagines, a smile in the eyes. The tone was nothing so easy or derisive as Camp; its Victorian-era salesmanship made it simultaneously real and fake...
...realize that going professional will require a lot of sacrifices, like learning what an engine is and growing a mustache. But I'm willing, because there truly is no greater thrill in sports than crushing a car. Except maybe crushing a school...
...another of the stories that follow, a man with a very English name, Quentin English, explains the thrill of what used to be personal attention, but is now customer relations. His particular vice is the Morgan, the English sports car that is still made with a wooden body. He has owned three Morgans. Only 12 are made each week by the company's 150 workers at its factory in Malvern Link, Worcestershire. He is especially pleased that when he orders a new one, "It goes through the factory with my name on the ticket...