Word: flo
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...another until only the strongest (or the top billed) survives. It also honors the familiar tropes of hombre films, from the requisite convenience-store holdup and multiple murder to a strident Ennio Morricone score (with the banshee harmonica from his Sergio Leone westerns). There's also a waitress named Flo. Stone swathes all this menace in his patented white-hot style: slo-mo, echoing voices, flashbacks that flick like lightning, cartoon sound effects (when the Mustang is mentioned, you'll hear a horse whinny). A streetwise Indian (Jon Voight) tells Bobby, "Your lies are old, but you tell 'em pretty...
...TOKIN' FLO! Florence Nightingale attended seances and took drugs. In an 1887 letter found in the attic of an antiques dealer, Nightingale says she took bromide, which was given to soldiers to curb libido...
...much to do, so little time. The 100-m dash is at once the shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding...
...tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld cheer...
...kind of a wake-up call for me," Mallgrave said. "Flo and I played horribly [against Dartmouth], and I think Coach was a little upset. It kind of sparks you to play better--it makes...