Word: cannon
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Even so, Khomeini has gone to considerable lengths to avoid giving the impression that he has withdrawn his support of Montazeri as his handpicked successor. He has, for example, permitted Montazeri to characterize Hashemi as a sort of loose cannon, an Iranian-style Oliver North who frequently acted on his own. Montazeri has denied any complicity in Hashemi's illegal activities and has pressed for a full investigation at "whatever cost." In his televised confession, Hashemi admitted that he had "abused the confidence" of Montazeri...
...terms." The movie boasts a $5 million budget and a cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
...imagination. Some Third World jobs defy common sense. The designers of a bridge over an Indian river fail to account for winds that shake the structure apart. Faussone's description might be a passage from Joseph Conrad: "One after the other, we heard what sounded like shots from a cannon. I counted: there were six of them. It was the vertical suspensions snapping: they snapped neatly, at the level of the track, and the stumps, in the backlash, flew up toward...
Flanked by fireworks, skydivers and cannon-fired confetti, Reagan spoke at a California election eve rally, saying, "I always thought being an American meant never being mean or small...
...backless satin dresses. Throughout her 20th book, the author honors the great Late Show tradition: in Dodsworth (1936) Walter Huston sighed to Ruth Chatterton, "Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?" In Casablanca (1942), as the Nazis marched on Paris, Bergman asked Bogart, "Was that cannon fire or is it my heart pounding?" Driscoll tells her lover, "It could never be as beautiful as this again. I want to remember it just as it is now . . . in my mind . . . in my heart." The screenwriters had actors to give their bromides life. Steel has millions of fans...