Word: frisson
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...famous Hitchcock twist endings sometimes fall flat in 1985. But when they ) work, they leave the viewer with a unique frisson: a grin accompanied by a sinking feeling in the stomach. In the best of the season's segments to date, Season Hubley played a convicted murderer who attempts a prison escape by hiding in a coffin about to be buried. Director Thomas Carter toyed masterfully with the audience's emotions, turning the protagonist from tearful victim to scheming bitch and back again in seconds. The half-hour story moved like a rifle shot (the inferior original was a full...
...faithful to Sendak's vision. Actors inside the costumes manipulate the mouths and arms by means of levers, while technicians in the audience control the movements of the eyes and noses. (The singers who provide the voices of the creatures are miked offstage.) Even jaded adults get a joyful frisson when Moishe, Tzippy, Bruno, Bernard and Emil come bouncing onstage, rolling their terrible eyes and gnashing their terrible teeth. Constructed by Britons Paul and Gill Fowler for the world premiere of the opera at Glyndebourne last year, they were refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life...
...first season), each of the Stories promises a distinctive style. Hyams' episode boasts sepulchral lighting and tension as taut as piano * wire; Bartel's is a slapstick black comedy; Spielberg's two shows are wistful parables about death as creative transcendence. Each offers a unique frisson, to be relived on Monday morning at the playground or around the water cooler...
...TIME by the polling firm Yankelovich, Skelly & White, reached a low point in 1975. During the Bicentennial celebrations, all sorts of Americans were surprised to find themselves feeling a frisson of harmless patriotic pleasure. Between June and September 1976, the surveys showed a 10% jump in the "state of the nation index," the fastest rise recorded by Yankelovich before or since. Carter's improbable, romantic victory sent spirits higher still, to a level not reached again until this year. But after his first year, the mood started to sour, declining further after the American embassy staff was imprisoned...
...revolutions, anything more dramatic than a lunar hemline? There were, but few seem interested in them now. The frenetic world of '60s sex and drugs makes for a kickier nightmare than Viet Nam or Watts or Kent State. It offers an escape into Hollywood melodrama, but with the frisson of real names and familiar faces. How else to explain the post-mortem celebrity of Edie Sedgwick? Once a footnote in any pop history of the decade, she is now the summer's hot number. Edie (Knopf; $16.95), a 450-page biography of her, is secure on the bestseller...