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...current dictator, while secretly preparing to put a hand-picked puppet in his place. Simultaneously the communists (secretly in cahoots with the dictator's amazonian wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative of the "U.S. Fruit Company," and you pretty much have the definition of a modern pulp...
...extra 150-meter loop for every shot missed. Since I am a better shooter than skier, the shooting range becomes my only place of potential glory in this kind of race. I hit all five targets during my first prone shooting bout during the race, and get the thrill of skiing past the penalty area knowing that clean shooting had just bumped me up eight places in the standings. This is the nearest thing to actual "victory" I feel during the entire competition (of course, this feeling fades quickly as my slow skiing allows all those people to pass...
...intended to point out, too, how Assassin offers the cosseted Ivy League Last Man a chance to experience what a real man should experience, albeit in an artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse...
...returned to his ship, the Trident submarine U.S.S. Alabama, the captain, Garnett Beard, said he was sending the regular engineer on leave and putting Waddle in charge of the nuclear reactor plant that powers the submarine. "Do you know what that did to me?" says Waddle, reliving the thrill of an old success...
...meeting was fabulous, and what made it so good, was the students," Pryor says. "It was a thrill to see these students so articulate and so passionate about their mission...