Word: ricochet
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...himself to snap a picture, collapsed in the glare of his own flashbulb. He had been shot in the back. From a Negro apartment building came furious shouts: "Tell the white people to get back or we'll start shooting!" The white men stayed. Bullets began to ricochet off the pavement, spurting sparks as they hit. The thunder of the mob rose-louder and louder-until even the sound of gunfire was drowned...
...inevitably as fallout follows the bomb, so have come profiteers, pitchmen, manufacturers of products that prove ineffective. "Lifesaving kits" contain a salve supposed to cause radiation to ricochet harmlessly off the body; in fact, no salve, ointment or grease has the slightest value as a fallout protector (neither does any of several brands of "antiradiation pills"). Jerry-built shelters bear the slogan "CD-approved" or other meaningless legends; actually, the OCDM approved nothing, merely set the standard for shelters. A widely advertised "fallout suit," selling at the rate of 500 a week for $21.95 each, actually provides no more protection...
...Jean Kerr's play is much more than a catalogue of one-line gags. The best laughs of Mary, Mary arise from character and substance; simple lines that are meaningless out of context ricochet around the stage and find their targets unerringly beyond the footlights. She knows how to trim her themes in light blue; but her humor is always basically decent?and universal. The man in Mary, Mary was, after all, married to the woman whose shoulder he sometimes tapped at 11p.m. saying: "Are you in the mood tonight? Because if you're not, I'm going to take...
Furthermore, the spectator is too frequently caught in a maze of mirrors, a ricochet of flashbacks. Bergman likes to wander away from his audience into a child's garden of vices where he plays "biting little games" of innuendo and digs "poisonously squirming worms of association." Often he wanders even farther, down into weird sea valleys of sick imagination where all human values are dissolved into primordial symbols and only a psychiatrist can adequately follow. Yet Bergman's films can be seen as a fascinating psychological record of his struggle to rise out of these cold depths...
...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...