Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Aided by two Eagle penalties, Harvard penetrated early, setting up pretty combinations which all seemed to end with sliding Cameron saves. On the first power play, Reed stickhandled through the B.C. defense, and fed to Palmer, who rifled a low bullet which Cameron managed to defect by Sue Yunick waiting for the rebound...
...most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists burst in, brazenly seized them, dragged them off and executed them. Hours later, their bullet-ridden bodies were found outside the city. The most prominent among them: millionaire Rancher Enrique Alvarez Cordova, a rightist turned leftist who headed the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR), a coalition of 48 leftist groups...
...film maker bites the bullet on his $36 million fiasco...
...artillery pieces, but because they consist of two parallel rails which act as both gunpowder and barrel. When the gun is fired, a powerful pulse of electricity goes down one rail. As the current surges to the other rail, it vaporizes a metallic fuse in back of the bullet, creating a cloud of electrically charged particles, or plasma. Simultaneously, it generates a strong magnetic field between the rails, like those in an electric motor. The field exerts a force against the plasma, just as it would against a motor's rotor. But instead of spinning, the plasma moves forward...
...scurrying to anxious meetings, acting out the rearranging-of-the-deck-chairs scene from The Titanic. Cimino must have wished he were in Airport-any airport. After all, his previous film, The Deer Hunter, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time out, he could only bite the bullet and petition his patrons "to temporarily withdraw [Heaven's Gate] from distribution to allow me to present to the public a finished film with the same care and thoughtfulness with which we began it." Within 24 hours, from his arrival in New York with the unseen film...