Word: crowbarred
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...standard. Let's use the end of the Jets-Seahawks game Dec. 6 at New Jersey's Meadowlands, seconds dying, Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde knifing for the goal line with the ball. Jimmy Hoffa might be somewhere in that end zone, but Testaverde was a crowbar short. Yet the Jets were given the touchdown that might have knocked Seattle out of the playoffs. "It's nonsense to say 'Let's wait,'" says Fox-TV analyst Tim Green, a former defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons. "That play could end up costing [Seattle coach] Dennis Erickson...
...force his father's steel gun vault with a hammer and torch, stole a .38-cal. derringer, a .38-cal. snub-nose and a .357 Magnum that had been left unsecured. Then they drove to Andrew's grandfather's home and broke in through a basement door, using a crowbar. They took four handguns and three rifles, including Doug Golden's favorite, "deadly accurate" deer rifle...
...private detectives turned it all over to police, and on March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand...
...compilation sound tracks is perhaps a more serious threat to the film composer's art. Increasingly, composers are finding themselves shouldered aside, as studios and record companies insert rock songs wherever possible, with an eye to creating a best-selling album. "A lot of directors lately are using a crowbar to stick songs in a movie where they clearly don't belong," complains agent Richard Kraft, who represents a number of composers...
...nightsticks and indiscriminately firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge the flesh of his targets. Another slammed his truncheon onto the unprotected skull of a house painter, killing him. "This is not Europe, my friend," said a Haitian to a nearby journalist. "This is hell...