Word: bazooka
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...when the Popular Front transferred him to Paris a year later. He set off three bombs in the city and helped the Japanese Red Army plan the takeover of the French embassy in the Hague, in which 11 hostages were seized. After he took an unsuccessful shot with a bazooka at an El Al airliner parked at Orly Airport in January 1975, police rounded up Michel Moukharbel, Carlos' Lebanese adjutant. Moukharbel then led three unarmed policemen to a party where Carlos sat strumming a guitar. After chatting briefly, Carlos excused himself to go to the bathroom. He returned with...
John Woo's last Hong Kong movie, the action-traction Hard Boiled, was basically Die Hard in a hospital. A zillion bad guys are terrorizing the place, and our indestructible cop hero must mow them down, holding a bazooka- size pistol in one hand -- and a newborn child in the other. No problem. Blam! and a villain's blood splatters a maternity-ward window. Boom! and a few more miscreants eat carpet. Surveying the scene, the cop shields the baby's | eyes and says jauntily, "Hey, X-rated action...
...fully armed with ball-points. You expect his anger to be ineffectual, especially since he starts out armed only with paranoid righteousness. But, as we all know, weaponry is easily acquired in the jungle of our cities, and by the time D- FENS nears home, he has acquired a bazooka. More important, he is no longer the nightmare's victim, but rather its logical extension and principal ogre, the guy the neighbors always describe as "quiet" or "well behaved," after his shooting spree is over...
...breed of young boys will lack this vital entre‚ into the female world. Offering a stick of ossified gum will no longer spark intergender friendships. Sure, boys can always substitute Bazooka (owned, incidentally, by Topps) or Trident, but it won't be the same. It will lack the cultural connotations, the comforting affiliation with the national pastime...
...package includes a sweatshirt with a quotation from General George S. Patton, a Bloomies minibear, six magazine travel games and 150 pieces of Bazooka bubble...