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...game from getting ugly. It won’t. But theoretically it could. The Brown offense probably won’t be on the field long enough to allow the defense to walk from the sideline to the bench, resulting in a level of fatigue that smacks of a blowout...
...dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired the 1968 John Wayne film Hellfighters...
...documentary Slasher (IFC, June 19, 10 p.m. E.T.), director John Landis (The Blues Brothers) spends a week with Bennett as he organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around...
With Harvard up 27-0 at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field, Fitzpatrick and the nation’s top offense were just mopping up yet another blowout win, minutes away from improving to a flawless 4-0 start...
Nine out of the 12 players—two of whom were goalies—on the roster scored in the blowout...