Word: cannoneering
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...planning has dictated since the late 1940s that the government buy or build the needed facilities and then hire private firms or universities to do the work, says James S. Cannon, a spokesman for the DOE's defense programs division...
Saturday, Bill Larson thought he had the same problem on his hands. The junior, who had not pitched anywhere in 11 months, threw six tremendous innings, allowing just two singles and no runs. Unfortunately, there was a seventh inning sandwiched in there that sounded like the 1812 Overture--five cannon shots (including three homers and a triple) in the five-run second frame that put the Crimson on the short end of things until late afternoon...
...hold on a minute. This is comedy-thriller and we're still in act one. Some master plotting is in order here--bizarre reversals, wacky characters, things going bump in the night. After all, Myra (Dyan Cannon) may be a bit too touchy/feely for her husband's effete tastes, but has-been Sidney (Michael Caine) would never murder her--he needs an ego-booster, not the missus's millions. Or does...
...some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine, who played Reeve's younger man to Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, undoubtedly steals the show. Biting and demonic one moment, vulnerable and pitiful the next, he's really the only actor in the movie who takes his character...
...jump. Smoke drifted over a friendly crowd of thousands, many shielding themselves from the sun under brightly colored umbrellas. It turned out that the Barbadian army had wanted to give the visiting head of state a proper 21-gun salute, but was somewhat handicapped because it had no working cannon. So soldiers were detonating sticks of dynamite in an open field near by. The blasts set fire to tall grass, and hoses had to be dragged out to extinguish the flames...