Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear warfare, the President running a vigilante action out of the White House, nurses accused of killing patients. People look at all this and say, 'If this is the Establishment, then I don't want this. I want something else, something I can trust.' It's people latching onto a belief system to get certainty where there is no certainty...
...friendly folk. But several recently reported episodes have been more sinister. High on the best-seller lists this past summer stood Communion by Whitley Strieber, previously known mainly as a writer of fantasies (The Wolfen, Warday), who vehemently describes as a "true story" his chilling account of being spirited onto a spaceship by a pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked him, "What can we do to help you stop screaming?" More scare stories came from Intruders by Budd Hopkins, a chronicle of 130 people...
...adversity and is reunited with them. But here the child is not abducted by poltergeists < or locked in a De Lorean time warp. Young Jim (Christian Bale) loses his way because, in the tumbledown panic of escape from Shanghai, he reaches for his precious toy airplane instead of holding onto his mother's hand for dear life. Once on his own, he leaps into the grasping arms of a scurvy American merchant seaman (John Malkovich). Jim might be an Oliver Twist auditioning for Fagin, or a Pinocchio begging to visit Stromboli's summer camp...
...second period was a scoreless deadlock with D'Allesio (who finished with 30 saves) fighting off several Crimson flurries. Meanwhile, Devin's main distraction came when a Cornell fan threw an object better suited to the bedroom onto the ice. Devin made the mistake of tossing the item back into the stands, only to have it thrown right back...
...third period belonged solely to Harvard and fourth-line wing Janfaza, who after serving a two-minute high-sticking penalty, leapt onto the ice, took an Armstrong pass at the midline, skated 20 feet, and then buried a shot into...