Word: mallet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puts on the screen, wants to be loved at the final fade-out. So Bonfire ends in a brotherhood-of-man speech instead of a race riot. The evil nurse in Misery doesn't chop her captive's foot off with an ax; she breaks it with a mallet. The heroine in Sleeping with the Enemy doesn't bravely confront her husband on her own terms; she cringes like a silent-film maiden tied to the railroad tracks. Plus ca change. Movies, even if they have literary beginnings, still need Hollywood endings...
...result, she said, University officials will likely resort to old-fashioned human labor to make the bell sound its traditional tones at the memorial ceremony for the Class of '40 tomorrow and Commencement ceremonies Thursday. "Someone will go up to the belfry and hit it with a mallet to make some sound," Cloutier-Diflo said...