Word: catapultic
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...terrible thing, Vince explains, because people start to use currency as wallpaper and tend to listen to atonal music. Though Sheldon wants nothing to do with his inlaw, he soon becomes his unwitting accomplice. What follows is a nonstop series of shootouts, chase scenes and mishaps that catapult the heroes from suburban New Jersey to Manhattan's treacherous West 30s and finally to a banana republic so corrupt that its main drag is called United Fruit Boulevard. There are encounters with the daredevil Chinese pilots of Wong Airlines, a mad Latin dictator (Richard Libertini) and a full symphony orchestra...
...Sidney Kugelmass (Joel Levin), a professor of humanities at the City College of New York with a balding pate and a "chubby cheesecake choked body," tries to add adventure and romance to his life. He enlists help from a magician (Tom Blumenfield) with a contraption that can catapult a person into the novel of his choice and decides to have an affair with Emma Bovary (Troy Segal...
Douglas secretly begins filming the panic unfolding in the room below him, while Fonda rushes back to the station, convinced that she has a story that will catapult her into hard news and out of fluff. But the station manager kills the story, after conferring with the power company's P.R. man. Fonda and Douglas keep trying to get the story out, and Lemmon joins their effort. The accident has alerted him to serious problems in the plant's safety precautions and he finds that inspection documents have been falsified. Lemmon tries, unsuccessfully, to prevent the plant from starting...
...hold such a powerful political plum in Mississippi. Cochran resembles Dantin in many ways. Ideologically, the two are identical. Cochran, however, is the special pride and joy of Mississippi's powerful Country Club Set--a class of wealthy planters and businessmen who can usually fork out enough money to catapult their candidate to the top. Cochran served an impeccable term in Congress by conservative Mississippi standards: his ADA rating was a flat zero. His silver hair, boyish looks and stern businessman-like demeanor, combined with his voting record, make him a formidable candidate...
...meters at Montreal, gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games, and two-time A.A.U National champion, is the kind of blue-chip athlete and personality who can transform a fairly strong program into a great one, who can attract name swimmers from all over the country, who can catapult a team into the national rankings--in short, the kind of athlete who comes to Harvard very rarely...