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There were two kinds of lynchings. At the "orderly" ones, local bankers and lawyers attended to keep the bloodlust in check. What that meant is merely that the victim was hanged without torture. At the wilder scenes, the crowd egged itself on into a frenzy beyond imagining. Before Sam Hose was doused with oil and set afire, he had his ears and fingers cut off and the skin stripped from his face. Jesse Washington, a retarded farm worker convicted of killing a white woman, was hung by a chain over a bonfire and repeatedly dipped into the flames...
...with Li in seven previous films), the star shows the world audience some of the moves that brought him to Hollywood. He hangs by one foot from a rope in a Hong Kong prison cell, and presto, four guards are zapped in- to electric skeletons. He twirls a water hose to subdue some villains, spins in the air to kick five guys at once, strips the belt off one oaf and hog-ties him with it, and goes spectacularly hand-to-hand with Asian-American lookers Russell Wong and Francoise Yip. In the battle with Yip, Li uses Aaliyah...
...Cambridge fire engines and one hook-and-ladder truck arrived, extinguishing the burning lint in minutes. But for a short while after, hose lines stretched across Garden St., disrupting traffic...
Like a fireman pointing a hose at a smoldering house, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan indicated Thursday morning that he will continue trying to cool off the economy before it bursts into flames. Making his biannual Humphrey Hawkins report to Congress, Greenspan again delivered the familiar sugar - the U.S. economic juggernaut is plowing on with no slowdown in sight - and then the medicine: This prosperity has to be kept at a steady pace. Financial analysts take this to mean that a substantial hike in the Fed's lending rates is in order...
Maybe the popular reaction was a realization that the NHL simply isn't Canadian hockey anymore. The pond in the backyard is a good metaphor. Winter was already freezing, and it just took someone to run the garden hose a little for there...