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...resistance. "We taught them how to make homemade Claymore mines and various antipersonnel devices," says Joseph Lammerding, an American engineer who worked for the Kuwaiti military. "You would take quarter sticks of TNT, which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...
...bigger bang for the buck. Without spending a dollar on advertising (though millions will be lavished on print and TV ads), without cozying up to a single critic (though rave reviews are nice), he can secure a client's name in people's minds. "Publicity isn't a buckshot medium," says Robert Friedman, a senior vice president at Warner Bros. "It's very carefully directed. Putting the best face on a picture is a good way of getting people into the seats for that first weekend...
...bubbly national newspaper in love with factoids and the pronoun we, launched its own TV entry last week. But USA Today: The Television Show -- syndicated to 156 stations, most of which air it in the early evening - -- bears little resemblance to a newscast. The nightly half-hour is a buckshot spray of brief, lightweight features, snippets of interviews and idle trivia (limousine sales in the U.S. rose from 4,000 in 1983 to 7,000 in 1987). The closest it came to a breaking story was a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Robert Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center...
...imagery, however, Babbitt has problems selling. With a bobbing and twitching face that folds all over itself, Babbitt seems as comfortable on television as a moose being pelted with buckshot. On the stump he is earnestly plodding and uncharismatic. Nor is his product an easy sell. His austere economic prescriptions are the political equivalent of bran flakes with skim milk: good for what ails the bloated body politic, but not the thing a liberal Iowa Democrat is likely to choose over the buttered and honeyed comfort food that others are promising. If Babbitt advances, it will mark an unlikely triumph...
...loudest timpani in all the long history of men and banana peels. The amazing noise brought Ulaga out of the chute splendidly, but the track's icy grooves were too narrow to contain such enthusiasm. Backing up in mid-air like a duck in the path of buckshot, Ulaga flapped in every direction until he put down gracelessly 100 ft. short of expectation. "One leg go like this, one leg go like that," he said, "and the people, they all gone." It was an Olympic record for clearing a forest. As the home crowd headed back to Sarajevo, whistling...