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...song, one of the hostesses knocks the child's life-support system loose with a merry swoop of her guitar. On the ground, an increasingly harassed airport manager (Lloyd Bridges) reverts to bad habits as the pressure increases ("I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"). There is also, naturally, a senior pilot (Robert Stack) who is expected to talk the plane in. He is supposed to be lovably gruff, but is, in fact, just plain meanspirited. Veteran Actors Bridges, Graves and Stack are all wonderfully alive to the opportunity to send up roles they have...
...supply of ammunition. Soon the inside flesh of my trigger finger was worn off, and I was wiping my blood from the trigger when I cleaned my revolver at the end of the day. I obtained a product called Nu-Skin, a quick-drying plastic coating that resembled clear glue, and coated my trigger finger with it, then fired until that, too, was worn...
...federal Christmas tree by special interests. This may be good political strategy, but it is poor public policy." Indianapolis Mayor William H. Hudnut III counts 498 federal programs that benefit cities and adds sarcastically, "There are 497 of these less important than general revenue sharing. It is the glue that holds the city's budget together...
...them. Onstage, the boys look like aging incorrigibles, the bottom four students in the remedial class at vocational high school. They play with headlong, madcap and deliberately amateurish intensity punctuated with agog appraisals of the audience. Gazing out at the roistering hordes, the Ramones look like a quartet of glue sniffers who have just crashed a model-plane convention. Adoring audiences respond in kind; they cheer when Joey brandishes a black and yellow sign that reads GABBA ABBA HEY!, the Ramones' own e pluribus unum...
...places. The rioting inmates then ran amuck through the 37-acre prison grounds. Some rushed to the workrooms for boards, pipes, acetylene torches, anything that could be used as a weapon. Others broke open cabinets in the pharmacy for drugs-tranquilizers, barbiturates, even insulin. A few found containers of glue, which they sniffed to get high...