Word: harpooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changed the entire flavor of his character-a bounty hunter called Robert E. Lee Clayton-inventing a deadly hand weapon resembling both a harpoon and a mace that he uses to kill. "I always wondered why in the history of lethal weapons no one invented that particular one. It appealed to me because I used to be very expert at knife throwing...
These scenes of derring-do are the third great virtue of the film. Part of the credit goes to the scope of the adventure--a harpoon being shot from one skyscraper to another, a million gallons of water drenching the banquet room--but most of it goes to the intensity and novelty...
...clubs-and many Soviets are buying them to protect themselves from robbers. In Moscow, there is a long waiting list to subscribe to a $3-a-month electronic anti-burglar system that links apartments to local militia stations. Soviet papers report citizens' electrifying their doors or installing a harpoon-like device that is supposed to spear an intruder who opens the door...
...Eskimos, the Aleuts, the Tlingits and the Athabaskans incorporate rams' heads into their basket designs and polar bears into their pipes. When these people grace a carved ivory harpoon rest with two otters, it's not for the sake of design, but for their religion, that the two belong together...
Rethinking Roles. The U.S. is also fitting out some ships with surface-to-surface standard missiles that have 35-to 60-mile ranges. In two or three years, after further research and development, more efficient Harpoon missiles will be introduced. In addition, in an unusual move for a nation that has traditionally developed its own weapons, the U.S. is considering buying either the Israeli surface-to-surface Gabriel missile or the French Exocet...