Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause violence in people with specific brain disease. Typical of their patients is a gifted epileptic engineer named Thomas, who used to erupt in rages so frenzied that he would hurl his children or his wife across the room. First, Mark and Ervin sent electric current into different parts of Thomas' brain; when the current sparked his rage, the doctors knew they had found the offending cells. Surgeons Mark and Sweet then destroyed them, and in the four years since, Thomas...
Still, some were badly injured or killed. A 14-year-old Catholic boy in Belfast's Ballymurphy district had his hand blown off as he was about to hurl a gelignite bomb at a British patrol. A five-year-old Catholic girl, Denise Dickson, was killed in the New Lodge Road district when a British scout car ran her over while chasing a gang of youths...
...Gardner's observations, however, and the acuteness of his understanding demand something more from him. With material as potent as Fat City's, an author keeping his own sense of bitter outrage under wraps relinquishes his right to poetry. One keeps hoping that Gardner will let himself go, will hurl himself into his work as Agee did in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, will see himself in his characters' plight, and implicate his readers in a necessary moral rededication. This doesn't happen. But Gardner's first remains a fine and sensitive novel, and a courageous...
...young film makers (Ryan Listman and Frank Cavestani), seeking money to make a movie about Lenny Bruce, agree to make a quickie pornographic movie for $10,000. They hurl themselves into the project with such enthusiasm that one of their girl friends (Joy Wener) becomes unnerved. After an orgiastic night of filming in a loft decorated with silks and exotic lighting effects, Ryan has a bitter fight with Joy. She accuses him of enjoying the pornography; he claims that she "puts him uptight." He finally walks out, and she is left to weep alone...
...rifle fired at two young boys walking along a road. The older of the two-about seven or eight years old-fell over the first to protect him. The G.I. kept on firing until both were dead." Hammer quotes a U.S. soldier who watched one of his friends hurl a grenade into a group of ten women and children: "You could hear the screams and then the sound and then see the pieces of bodies scatter out, and the whole area just suddenly turned red like somebody had turned on a faucet." Why didn't he stop his buddy...