Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime a presidential campaign proceeded. The march to the Democratic and Republican conventions moved along as day follows night, with just as many surprises. There were occasional moments of thrill, when it seemed for a second that something significant might just happen. Pat Robertson beat George Bush, the Vice President, in Iowa. But then Bush won in New Hampshire and everywhere else...
Imagine the thrill Johanna Neilson got when, on a third grade field trip, she went to see Bobby Clarke, Ross Lonsberry and Rick MacLeish of the Philadelphia Flyers on a local Philadelphia morning television program...
Covering Joe Restic's Harvard football team as it marched to the 1987 Ivy League title was a thrill I will always remember--especially the finale at the North Pole...
...still brown land of broomweed and tumbleweed, thorn trees and mesquite and prickly-pear cactus. Browning has been hunting snakes since he was 14, always with the same high school friends. His wife Brenda accompanies him. "It's something we can do together," she says. "It's exciting, the thrill of not knowing, the danger. Bo hunts snakes like some people hunt deer, for the sport." "He's good," says a friend. "He just smells them...
...that enabled Disney to give its theme parks an immediate injection of Hollywood hipness. Enter Michael Jackson, who was recruited by Eisner to help write and star in Captain Eo, a 17-minute, $17 million movie musical in 3-D. Even more spectacular is Star Tours, a $32 million thrill ride that opened in January 1987 at Disneyland. The ride employs the technology of flight simulators, the devices used for training pilots and astronauts. Hydraulically powered, the StarSpeeder 3000 cabin shakes, rattles and rolls its 40 passengers at angles up to 35 degrees as they watch a 4 1/2-minute spaceflight...