Word: dump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leaf (1971), and the difference in the two movies reveals something about Nichols and his former partner. A New 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...
...Milt Holt locked horns in the opener, each limiting the opposition to five hits. But the Big Green took advantage of those hits to defeat the hard-luck Holt. 2-0 In the nightcap, however Mark Linehan showed them both up as he tossed a one-hitter to dump Dartmouth...
...This Dump Truck is about these different styles of handling Harvard...
...noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings and nobles in barrows, surrounded by every sort of tool, artifact and status symbol they might need in the next life...
...areas of South Viet Nam that the Communists have occupied in the past. When they briefly took over Hué during the 1968 Tet offensive, they arrived with lengthy blacklists. In the midst of an exceedingly hard-fought battle, they took the time to round up, execute and dump into mass graves perhaps 2,000 civilians in a population of 200,000. When they gained control of several northern provinces late last year, according to a U.S. intelligence source, they killed several hundred civil servants. No information is yet available on how the Communists are behaving in the provinces they...