Word: thrillingly
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...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...
...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...
...young man a gun and show him how to use it, and unless you can later show him a viable career alternative you may have a devil of a time wresting it away from him. After all, besides the passionate embrace of a political cause and the testosterone thrill of meting out violence, insurgency often also represents a viable career path to those otherwise mired in grinding poverty...
...threatens your nearest and dearest. No, you're not the target of an IRS audit. You're playing Majestic, a strange, sinister new computer game that doesn't just take over your computer, it invades your life. For $9.99 a month (the first "episode" is free), players get the thrill of being harassed by a mysterious conspiracy via phone, e-mail, instant messaging and the Web. If that's your idea of fun, sign up at www.majestic thegame.com...