One theory advanced by some criminologists to explain the upsurge is that a new generation of teenagers, too young to have experienced the terrifying consequences of the crack epidemic of the late 1980's -- the shootings, gang fights and waves of imprisonment -- may now be looking for a new form of excitement.
In fact, there is evidence that "excitement" is quite specific in terms of semantics whenever referred to sports; pre-competitive anxiety is frequently interpreted as exciting and it is not necessarily something good, in fact there is evidence that athletes tend to refer to anxiety as a form of excitement, which does not hold a positive affect content (Brooks, 2014).
Lord Salisbury told Reid he thought it unlikely in her case too, and that she secretly enjoyed the arguments because they were "the only form of excitement she can have".
Most of the aggro, festival-filling music that people have taken to calling "trap" is built with rollercoaster-like engineering: build enough momentum, and you're bound to get a payoff with a drop, flip, roll, or other form of excitement.
Though faced with distinctly genuine threats of war, illness, impoverishment and terror, vast millions of Americans still choose to distract and amuse themselves with assorted forms of morbid excitement, public scandal and the thoroughly inane repetitions of an authentically illiterate political discourse.
Since cloning is a form of cellular reprogramming, Hwang's work generated the same kind of excitement as Obokata's.
It was the kind of excitement first brought to Harlem by Mr. Rucker, who formed his league in 1946.
