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...life for those statues," he says. "But when they came up with such expensive things, I was hooked." Feng, who was paid $45 for his maiden raid, doesn't mention the pieces' beauty. It's beyond him why Westerners would waste so much money on them. But the thrill of the treasure hunt hasn't diminished: "The excitement gives our lives some meaning...
...album’s immediate highlight and cheapest thrill is the lead single, the throbbing “Still In Love Song,” where distorted vocals (strongly reminiscent of The Stills’ current tour partners, Echo and the Bunnymen) drone over a jaunty bass line. At their worst, as on the nearly self-parodying “Animals & Insects,” the band suffer from monotony—without memorable hooks, the songs are unspectacular, and the throbbing, annoyingly persistent bass longs for a change of pace. As another entry in a growing aesthetic of modern...
...Hero. It meanders in places then rushes through a half-dozen climaxes, including one with weak visual effects (and copped from Raiders of the Lost Ark). But Zhao Fei's cinematography is ravishing, the actors bring heft and glamour to their roles, and the battle scenes have a clanging thrill to them. When the good guys and bad guys wage a group sword fight on horseback, you'll wonder why Hollywood ever thought it could get away with boring old guns...
...also some transportation.” Longbaords provide more stability and speed, and some find that they are easier to control than skateboards. “They’re for cruising around town,” says Neuwinger. “Bombing down the road, getting the thrill of speed...
...leaving Galway has its pleasures, too. Last weekend I experienced again the inexhaustible thrill of being a young traveller, of getting off a bus in Dublin with a backpack on and trying to find my way to a hostel using a tiny Let’s Go map. When I stood (with a high school friend who had popped over from Oxford) at the gates of Trinity College for a “backpackers’ pub crawl” I heard the gorgeous sound of travel stories being exchanged in various accents—“We?...