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For compensation, the movie can boast some accurate location work around New York and some fine, sinewy performances by Rony Clanton as Sonny, Joyce Walker as his girl friend who turns to the needle, and most especially by a group of black nonprofessionals, a lot of them recruited from the...
As a result, they form a huge disk-shaped magnetic field; the electrons and protons that swirl within it create powerful electrical currents that may discharge lightning bolts all the way to Io, the innermost of Jupiter's nine moons.
Much more important for Schwimmer, I.A.I.'s planes and weapons performed well during the October war. The company's own fighter, the Barak (Hebrew for lightning), did especially well: of the 70 planes that saw combat, only three were lost. The plane carries a General Electric jet engine...
As to what "white lightning" really tastes like, opinions differ. Irvin S. Cobb compared a swig to swallowing a lighted kerosene lamp. A North Carolina moonshiner says simply: "Hits a blamed ugly drink." And then there is Colonel Leland DeVore, whose throat involuntarily contracts whenever he thinks of moonshine: "I...
The turnout was greater than expected for the first convention of the Republican Party on July 6, 1854. So on that langorous summer day, hundreds of people wandered to the edge of the village of Jackson, Mich., to assemble in the shade of a grove of majestic oaks. Ever since...