Word: hulked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust now covers everything. A stray dog searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere, here a flowered water jug, there a statue of the Virgin Mary, her severed head resting a few steps away from her folded, praying hands...
...Schwarzenegger, he nicely fleshes out the convention of a soulless gun for hire. With his choppy hair, cryptic shades and state-of-the-'80s leather ensemble, he looks like the Incredible Hulk gone punk. Some day he and Supergirl should get together in a winner-take-all hybrid sequel. These two could make beautiful music together-say, America the Beautiful rendered in teeny-bopper heavy metal...
...some pieces have been translated by William Weaver, the rest by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright) is straightforward, with nary a hint of narrative nudging. A few seem little more than sketches; in A Ship Loaded with Crabs, for instance, a group of young boys explores a half-sunken hulk, repulses a boarding by a rival gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light and shadow remain to tease the imagination. If he had never gone beyond the skill displayed in these early efforts...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...until now, testing procedures were generally so haphazard and unsophisticated that many athletes and their trainers were willing to risk detection for the chance to shave an extra tenth of a second on a sprint or to lift a kilo more than a pumped-up hulk who had obviously been popping something...