Word: bashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apart from ISR, all atom smashers rely on the same basic principle: subatomic particles-usually protons-are accelerated to high velocities and slammed at stationary targets. Upon impact, the nuclei in the target atoms break apart, scattering the fragments for physicists to observe. This "bash-and-see approach" has drawbacks. As an accelerator's bullets approach the speed of light, the strange effects predicated by the relativity theory begin to take a toll: the proton's mass becomes much larger than that of the stationary targets. Much of the proton's energy is spent simply in pushing...
...juxtaposition. Thus to the strains of Rossini's Thieving Magpie, a girl is gang-raped in a deserted casino. In a sequence of exquisite comédie noire, Alex cripples a writer and rapes his wife while tripping through a Gene Kelly number: "Singin' in the rain" (bash), "Just singin' in the rain" (kick...
...They bash up an old drunk who lies singing in a tunnel. They bloody Billyboy and his gang. They steal a Durango-95 and roar out into the countryside, running cars and pedestrians off the road. They pay "the old surprise visit" to a quiet home, force their way in, tie and gag the man of the house and rape his wife. Then, all feeling "a bit shagged and fagged and fashed," they retire once again to the Korova. After all, as Alex says, it has been "an evening of some small energy expenditures...
Ottawa's diplomatic social season has barely begun, but the Chinese have already cut a considerable swath. Nearly 400 guests came to an embassy bash last month to meet the ambassador and his petite wife Ho Li-liang, a severely handsome woman in a man-tailored, dark blue suit and glossy black pumps. Two weeks ago, 350 turned out for the embassy's lavish National Day reception...
...normal operations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry subsequently announced that the usual National Day hoopla would be scrapped "for reasons of economy." That did not seem to apply to China's embassies and missions round the world; they celebrated the big day with unprecedentedly lavish parties, including a bash in Geneva that featured 500 guests and a ten-course dinner...