Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...struts onstage, and 17,000 New Yorkers start to cheer. Andrew Dice Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like...
...white working-class male may hold against the beneficiaries of affirmative action and liberal sympathy: minorities, the handicapped, gays. They get all the breaks, he figures; now what about me? His counterattack is to bad-mouth them with paranoid intensity. And that's where the sick threat and thrill come...
...overacting--and off-stage, no less. When his character slits his throat, Byrd hollers into a backstage microphone for about 30 seconds. This is just to let everyone know that he is really dying. And though it is a relief to see Byrd go in the second scene, the thrill is short-lived. He unfortunately returns in the second act as a ghost...
Once known only to a handful of sky divers, mountain climbers and other daredevils, bungee jumping -- the origin of the name is unknown -- has spawned dozens of clubs in recent months. One of the first, Bungee Adventures in California, has already sent 8,000 thrill seekers over the edge. Although there have been no fatalities reported in the U.S., two French jumpers fell to their deaths last year when their cords severed, and a third died after colliding with a tower...
...charge a commission when you initiate the short (selling shares of a stock you don't yet own) and another when you "cover" (buying them back), just as he would if you bought and sold a stock normally. But your broker's real thrill will be the interest he earns on the proceeds of your sale. Because even though you didn't own the shares you sold (your broker borrowed them for you from another customer), you really did sell them, and your broker really did receive cash. By rights, you should earn interest on that cash. But unless...