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...comparable term for the irresistible urge to extinguish them. Whatever that mania is called, New York City Fireman Dennis Smith, 35, has it in its most extreme form. In Smith's view, where there is fire there is always smoke-and it is his sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary that described the routine and anguish of men whose...
...DECIDE to kill her for the money, and the rest of the film is a series of asinine murder plots that they botch through sheer stupidity. You've seen it all before. The poisonous snake that turns out to be harmless. The failure to drown her in a birdbath. The leaky casket, cast out to sea, that deposits her unharmed on a beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse...
...royal box at his concerts to encourage them. He has staged benefit concerts for Watford in order to buy the team the new players it needs. A year ago, he gained something like 40 Ibs. and what he claims was an incipient case of alcoholism helping team members drown their sorrows after an endless string of defeats...
...attempt to make a moral point. The bear Shardik has such an awesome destructive force that it is perceived as a god of conquest and bloodshed by humans who set up an empire based on the enslavement of the conquered. Brutality is commonplace in this society: slavers drown a little girl, for instance, and hack off a boy's hand. The great bear finally kills the chief slave trader, but undergoes great suffering in doing so, and ends the book perceived as a god of sacrifice. The empire disintegrates, and the hero is reduced to ordinary business, "picking...
...Leaf was dark, crazy and exhilaratingly wacky. The Fortune, which also becomes a comedy of murders, is safe and smug. When the boys first try to kill the girl, they dump her in a tiny fountain in two inches of water and creep away, expecting her to drown. The gag does not work because it is clear that the girl is in no peril. Elaine May put her heroine directly in harm's way, and managed to make the murderous husband funny at the same time. Nichols just plays it all too cozy...