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...well it should. Shostakovich's first impulses retain their power to shock and thrill even after 60 years, and the elements that so offended Stalin -- the detumescent sound of the slide trombones in the rape scene, or the drunken peasant's breakdown after he discovers the corpse of Katerina's husband -- still pack a wallop...
...Every year tops the last," Hartwell-Walker said. "What a thrill. It's a wonderful thing the kids put together...
...grueling life for William Gates and Arthur Agee; they can make poetry of a jump shot, but to them algebra looks like Chinese. At school they are hired guns, set apart by their race and their athletic gift. And when they get on the court, thrill and fear pump through their veins like high-grade heroin. In class you can get a B or a C; in basketball you get an A or an F -- win or lose, period -- and everyone's watching. These kids must perform under pressures that would break most adults. "It became more...
...Jules (Jackson), henchmen of Los Angeles crime lord Marsellus Wallace (Rhames), retrieve a briefcase from some cheating kids. Three people die there, and a fourth in a getaway car. A specialist (Keitel) drops by to supervise the cleanup. At a diner, the henchmen's breakfast is interrupted by a thrill-crazy young couple (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) staging a holdup. He and Vincent go to see Marsellus, who is telling an aging boxer named Butch (Willis) to throw his next fight. Later, Vincent buys some potent heroin, then escorts the boss' sexy wife Mia (Thurman) for a toxic night...
...said it in these pages before, but such moments really do define sport--"the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat," as Roone Arledge spelled it out for ABC long, long ago. Moments that give you chills time and time again--maybe a clutch foul shot you sank to win a game, maybe a broadcaster's patriotic outcry of "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"--are what bring you back...