Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalls; so help me Christ, if that thing had hit that dock we would have been in jail for a hundred years, or something; I get out of the water and run up on this catwalk at the back of this building, and I run around the corner, bang!, no more goddamn catwalk and I take a thirty foot drop into two feet of water; and then there were more cops than I had ever seen in my life. So we go to court and everybody says guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty; they let me go and said...
...care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window, bang! Disease can strike...
Most astronomers believe that the universe was born billions of years ago in a so-called "Big Bang"-a violent explosion of a primordial clump of matter. Ever since, fragments of that clump -consisting largely of the islands of stars called galaxies-have been flying apart. But the universe is expanding at a steadily decreasing speed; the outward flight of each galaxy is being slowed by the pull of gravity from the others. If that pull is strong enough, the galaxies will eventually be braked to a halt. Then they will begin falling back to crush together in a final...
Fitzsimmons broke into the Crimson lineup with a bang as a sophomore. Enroute to All-New England and second-team All-Ivy berths, he set a new Harvard single-season scoring record of 629 points, with 24.2 points per game and an 83.3 shooting percentage...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...