Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to. "Unlucky in Love," for example, doesn't say much of anything, but its sonic-boom noise and punk/polka rhythm make it great fun. Otherwise, the new Rank and File's hybrid of nasal vocals and buzzsaw guitars sound like uniform drone. Rank and File may catapult the band to MTV stardom (and Rhino Records out from the novelty and oldies bins in record stores), but such success will come at the expense of the band's more interesting elements...
Carefully bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...
...amount of cash that Drexel has raised through junk bonds has zoomed from $839 million in 1981 to $13 billion so far this year. Fees from those securities helped catapult Drexel from a second-tier investment house, ranked eleventh in 1978, to one of the three or four most powerful firms on Wall Street. Drexel's 1986 revenues will reach an estimated $6 billion, up from $4 billion last year. Milken has prospered even more stunningly. By far the most highly compensated Drexel employee, Milken, now 40, has amassed a fortune, estimated at more than $500 million. Yet Drexel...
...course. Chevy Chase in his tux intends to perform his Ford-the-Klutz routine of stumbling and bumping, the old Saturday Night Live act that helped catapult him to national notice. "But I've got to be careful," warns Chase. "I've got a couple of squashed disks in my back now, and I can't take falls like I used to." When Ford first called to ask him to join in the presidential hilarity, Chase thought there had been a mistake. "After all, I'd been pretty mean...
Eric Davis and Dave Parker rocked Steve Carlton with home runs yesterday to catapult the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League's traditional season opener...