Word: injection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rows upon rows of cells stretching up to the roof, the paint on the cell bars chipping away to expose the constraining iron underneath, the echoing cacophony of voices rebounding against the unadorned walls of the block. The mere sights and sounds of the prison would be sufficient to inject a generous dose of raw terror into even the most jaded newcomers. The foregoing, needless to say, has only served as a fitting warm-up for the assorted misfits and ne'er-do-wells who populate the inside world of those paying back the proverbial debt to society...
...British fortunes reached their nadir in 1936. The British squad that year included teenage champion John Langley and another schoolboy star named P.B. "Laddie" Lucas, who was perhaps the handsomest lefthander ever to play the game and in later life a Member of Parliament. Despite this typical effort to inject new blood into its corps of golfing ambassadors, the British were shutout that year at Pine Valley in New Jersey by a score...
...friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible into the film, Director Crichton used live actors for the bodies. He could only keep them dangling from wires for a few minutes, which was just fine with Bujold. Says she: "It kept things from getting too eerie...
Around dating bars in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Berkowitz was remembered as a quiet listener who would timidly attempt to join animated conversation, inject a few comments with his bemused smile, quickly be cut out of a group as an odd duck, retreat, then try futilely to strike up a conversation with others...
...brought immediate results. Several of the stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...