Word: blowtorched
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...most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered -- hands up high, dripping wet -- to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow mobster annoyed him. "We felt that some of the tips were coming from the Luccheses," says FBI agent Donald North, who supervises organized-crime investigations in New York City. "The family wanted...
...roots as deep as 6 ft. beneath the soil, leaving them susceptible to soil fungus and other infections. Roots under attack become swollen and deformed; eventually the vine and its grapes shrivel and die. Says Ed Weber, a Napa County viticultural adviser: "It looks like someone took a blowtorch to them...
...coats the steps with ice -- a simple matter of spraying them with water -- and swings paint cans from the banister. Christmas ornaments are strewn about the floor like little land mines, a blowtorch becomes a flamethrower, and a hot iron is transformed into a ballistic missile. Home Alone director Chris Columbus notes that all the dirty tricks can be rigged up by a 10-year- old with simple household supplies, and all have what he calls "kid logic...
...automatic rifle to a representative of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who will be inaugurated as Nicaragua's President this week. The weapon was then handed to Major General Agustin Quesada Gomez, commander of a United Nations peacekeeping force, who passed it on to be cut apart with a blowtorch. In all, 365 weapons were surrendered and destroyed. "Today," said Quesada Gomez, "the problem of the resistance in Honduras ends...
...vehicle he chose was Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending, a nightmare vision of the playwright's native South. Its Grand Guignol events -- religious hysteria, racial confrontation, abusive law enforcement, Klan night-riding and a climactic murder by blowtorch -- seemed at the 1957 debut to arise from Williams' inner demons. Three decades of civil rights struggle compelled a whole nation to see those demons as its own. Yet if the descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with...