Word: blows
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...Reservoir Dogs, the 1992 heist movie he wrote and directed, that revolts some folks who have never even seen it. In True Romance and Natural Born Killers, two Tarantino scripts with identical itineraries (Bonnie and Clyde going to hell in a hot rod), knives skate across faces and guns blow fishbowl holes in stomachs. When a tough wants to leave his mark on someone, he does it with a mutilating flourish. Tarantino's films allow for no idle bystanders; you either get with the pogrom or get out of the way. Thus does he make the viewer a co-conspirator...
...sound like catty old fishwives. But this is a very male form of gossip -- verbal machismo. With their edgy patter, the guys test themselves, their friends, their victims; every conversation is a pop quiz with life on the line. And when they do shut up, it's often to blow someone away, or do drugs, or sink into edgy pensiveness. In Tarantino's film there are no comfortable silences...
...especially shocking blow to Estonia and Sweden; nearly all of the victims came from these two countries. Their families' grief provoked an ugly outpouring of questions about why the ship sank so rapidly. Inquiries are also being made about the Estonia's basic design, so similar to the scores of other roll-on, roll-off vessels with vast, open vehicle decks vulnerable to flooding from large loading doors fore and aft. Some analysts were suggesting the loss of the Estonia -- like that of the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge in 1987 -- means these...
When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...
...this point, someone must have awakened Mr. Elvis Patriot. He put the shake, rattle and roll right into Frank Winters's long snap causing Chris Jacke to blow his streak of 126 PATs...