The sense of momentum and excitement that characterized the thrilling rise of Jeremy Lin was evident again in Madison Square Garden on Monday night, but this time he was wearing Houston Rockets red.
By Ian Crouch April 20, 2010 Described in the starkest of terms, the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reflects the era during which they lived — highs and lows, boom and bust, a thrilling rise and devastating crash.
The squad had been on a thrilling rise in international football since 1979, when the visionary German coach Sepp Piontek began to drag Denmark out of their amateur malaise and into a new, professional era.
This vile, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an amusement park thrill ride, rising from the cool Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.
In his book "Encyclopedia of Grapes" (Harcourt, 2001), Oz Clarke writes, "Malbec is now a seriously thrilling rising star in the red wine firmament".
Thrill rides rose and dropped, spun and twirled.
People kill because they vaguely imagine, in a moral haze like the one overhanging the sun-scorched sand, that on the other side of murder lies some kind of expiation, or the thrill of rising above the mundane, or a way of pushing past alienation, or a shortcut to significance.
As the profile of Dead End Thrills has risen, Harris's to-do list has grown.
Of course, not everyone has been as thrilled by her rise.
M&S might be in danger of finding itself squeezed between cheap thrills and the rise of the high-end high street – with labels such as Whistles, Maje and J Crew, the American retailer that comes to London next week, charging £168 for a sweatshirt.
