Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curious way, this is a daring movie. It is a "prequel," as the neologism has it. The Early Days tells the story of how the title characters met and formed the partnership celebrated in that mighty hit of (can it be?) a decade ago, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In the circumstances it would have been sufficient merely to evoke the antic cheerfulness of the old movie and then coast home on its reputation. Instead, Director Richard Lester, a master of off-the-wall historical japery (The Three Musketeers), has chosen to make Butch and Sundance an exercise...
...native Californian, I was offended by your article "Gas: A Long, Dry Summer" [May 21]. Californians are not selfish, greedy gas hogs. California has been hit the hardest in the nation, but we will survive...
...bitch is coming right at us! Now! Let's go!" He jams the truck into gear, and we race north. Behind, hardly the length of a football field away, the ground beneath the tornado is suddenly lost in a dark howling whirlpool. Then the truck is hit again with the full force of the hail. A shower of red dirt and debris tossed up by the tornado batters it. Minutes later, as Moore pulls into Covington, tornado sirens suddenly fill...
Steve Ross, chairman of Warner Communications, on the firing of the coach of Warner's Cosmos soccer team after the club lost two of its first eleven games: "This is show business, no matter what you think. You're judged by your last hit...
...evidently something was not strong enough. In the evening, after the visiting architects had left the arena, a tremendous rainstorm hit the city, dumping 4 in. of rain in 30 minutes. Shortly after it began, Arthur LaMaster, the supervisor on duty in the deserted building, noticed water pouring down two sides of the $250,000 Scoreboard, which was suspended from the center of the ceiling. Then he heard a roar "like a pounding of a sledge hammer on concrete." The 18-ton scoreboard came crashing down, and more than half of the arena's roof collapsed. Twisted steel, broken...