Word: tears
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Sensory experience. We live in our bodies. Our heart beats faster when we are scared; our eyes tear when we are emotionally touched; and we howl, hoot, whistle and clap when turned on. No amount of technological development will alter our basic instincts. Watch a film in a large theater, and the experience will be doubly charged, not by the size of the screen but by the energy of the audience. Coliseums, football stadiums, rock concerts--to be a part of the action, as opposed to just being a voyeur, is as old as the ritual of performance. Yet bigger...
Johnson tore her miniscus and suffered a slight tear in her anterior cruciate ligament...
...always stood as the sort of Berlin Wall of social distinction I've wanted to destroy. And I figure someday I'll gather the courage that Reagan did in '88, to stand up and proclaim what is right and just. "Mrs. Stewardess," I'll scream out into the galley, "Tear down that curtain...
...Robertson wing of the Christian right and the Gary Bauer wing," says Dickerson. "Bauer sees Reed and Robertson as promoting a caricature of social conservatism, and he wants to break from that." Bauer threw his weight behind McCain, Dickerson adds, in response to Reed and Robertson's attempt to tear the senator down. Bauer also believes, says Dickerson, that McCain has a better chance of beating Al Gore in November...
...eyes started to tear," said Jeffrey E. DiIuglio, an instructor who was teaching his English as a Second Language course at the time...