Word: blowtorch
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...history as Hellzapoppin, a long slapstick routine careering around a manic premise: What if the fabled American innocence is all shuck and jive? To underscore his thesis, Ellroy uses spurts of unimaginable violence the way other writers deploy commas and periods: "Sal burned a man to death with a blowtorch. The man's wife came home unexpectedly. Sal shoved a gasoline-soaked rag in her mouth and ignited it. He said she died shooting flames like a dragon...
Nearly four decades ago, the tower burned after a careless construction worker left his blowtorch unattended...
Then, on September 6, 1956, a worker involved in a project to restore the clock left his blowtorch on. The subsequent inferno raged for four hours and completely destroyed the tower, its clocks and its 3,000-pound bell...
...street corners, in neighborhood bars and coffee shops, making their encounters more naturalistic and believable. Yet he and director Gregory Mosher have retained enough of the stylized original to bring off satiric fragments of pseudo-plays -- costume epics and drawing-room comedies that are the antithesis of Mamet's blowtorch aesthetic...
...proposing so blunt a program, especially so huge a tax hike, Clinton was feeding raw meat to his Republican opponents. In the hours before the speech, G.O.P. lawmakers were already displaying a banner reading, IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID! Radio blowtorch Rush Limbaugh bet the Democratic National Committee $1 million that by Jan. 1, 1995, inflation, unemployment, interest rates and the federal deficit will all be higher and that Clinton's approval rating in the polls will be 45% or less. David Wilhelm of the D.N.C. replied with a counteroffer: If the Clinton plan works, Limbaugh will have to give...