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This effect is no doubt intentional on Gilliam's part, for what he has crafted here is a tribute to the human imagination. Though the body may be shocked, beaten and tortured with a power drill, the mind is still free to escape. As is apparent in the final scene, where he soars through the clouds in a torture chair singing "Brazil," Lowry's mind gets away...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Brazil's Flying Circus | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

...second disaster to strike NASA's pioneering space program in 56 manned space missions. In January 1967, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death while preparing for an Apollo flight when a fire destroyed their capsule during a training drill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Space Shuttle Explodes Seconds After Liftoff | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

Rather than hacking the ice cream and M&M's to pieces, Thomas Sweet uses a special machine, resembling a somewhat perverse giant drill to blend evenly the flavoring into the ice cream. The amazing thing is, it really works...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: The Unofficial New Haven Gourmet Guide | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

...third day there, we were working a defensive drill where I was playing defense and drivers were trying to get open on me to score," Scherrer explained. "When Wade and I were teamed up, we sort of got tangled...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: California Dreamin' in Colorado Springs | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

...eagerly it was hard to tell if the incitement preceded the response. Farrakhan's male guards, who sat lined up in chairs facing forward on the stage, were trained to leap to attention whenever the audience went wild, as if creating a sudden row of exclamation points. The drill suggested that the audience must have been bursting to express its hatred all along. It seemed so. Farrakhan may be a second-rate demagogue, but he has some first-rate hate to play with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Demagogue in the Crowd | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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