Word: duds
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...hurled a grenade into the crowd. The grenade landed at the feet of Abu Ghazala but failed to explode. A second grenade hit the face of Major General Abdrab Nabi Hafez, the Armed Forces Chief of Staff, who was also sitting near Sadat, but it too was a dud. The grenade thrower dashed back to the truck. grabbed an automatic weapon from the seat, turned again and began firing as he charged toward the stand. The three other uniformed men jumped from the back of the vehicle to join him, sprinting toward the dais and unleashing a torrent of automatic...
Assuming, then, that anyone who ever liked "Satisfaction" will find this album entertaining (with the exception of a Latin-influenced dud on side two called "Heaven"), we return to the question of how the immoderate Stones fan justifies his excitement over Tattoo You. The answer is that even if the Stones usually turn to 12-bar blues in the clinch and even if some of their better riffs make multiple appearances from record to record, they have managed to hold onto the strange fusion of ironic distance and electrifying enthusiasm that first fascinated listeners in the Sixties...
Until a month ago, it seemed as though the summer of 1981 would prove a foreign travel dud. But suddenly the airlines and travel agencies are being flooded with inquiries. In recent weeks, the number of passports issued by the State Department has jumped nearly 14% over the number issued during the same period last year. "There was a very slow start this year, but business has been picking up speed," says Jonathan Linen, head of American Express's travel division. "Now people are flocking to the gates...
...progress, his luck seemed to hold again: if the gunman's arm had been jostled even a hair, if the angle of the slug's deflection off the President's seventh rib had been minutely sharper, if the Devastator bullet had not been a dud . . . Of course, one can argue it the other way: if the assassin's arm had been jostled, he might have missed Reagan entirely...
...comedies and pornographic films, Sunday Lovers totally lacks the substance of either. It could never be a plece of art, but if it had only replaced the fireworks of Love American Style with explicit sex, it might at least have been a bearable porno flick instead of a tiresome dud...