Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosecutors allege that on Dec. 11, 1994, Yousef tested his larger plan for attacking the U.S. carriers by boarding a Philippine Airlines flight on the first leg from the Philippines to Japan. He carried with him the components for a bomb, unassembled in his carry-on bag. The X-ray operators never detected the components. On board the plane, Yousef allegedly went to the lavatory and assembled the bomb, which was made up of gun cotton, a nitroglycerin solution, an explosive detonator and a timer all packed into a contact-lens bottle. He then went back to his seat...
Where to begin? There's Bannister, pseudo-Andie-MacDowell, and her "I'm uptight" uptight health nut husband Ray (Peter Dobson) who dies and must communicate with her by making Fox act like Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost." There are the people dying, their number inscribed on their foreheads, all at the hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler...
...others wonder if their futures will be sacrificed so that Boeing and companies like it, lured by the potential of 1.2 billion people, can boost their share of the China market. Laments Clay: "Companies in this country are sending manufacturing of just about everything to China." Clay's friend Ray Baumgardner, 36, his red-and-green golf shirt emblazoned "Fighting Machinists," says "Boeing isn't in the business of just selling airplanes anymore. Now they're selling jobs...
Bubba lives in the White House, the house that is zapped into holocaustal flames by a flying saucer's death ray in Independence Day. The house that, come Christmas, will be invaded by uggy green creatures with no manners at all in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! The house whose primary resident supposedly knows every secret of a secretive government--the hot dish about alien sightings, alien abductees, alien autopsies--except that, as viewers of TV shows like The X-Files are taught, the President doesn't know the half of it, because the information is kept from...
...retro-'70s disaster movie, reminiscent of Airport or The Towering Inferno. Only this time the disaster is the end of the world. On July 2 in a near future year, humongous spaceships enter the Earth's atmosphere, hover over major cities around the globe, then send out a heat ray that pulverizes every urban center. Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow--all barbecued. On July 3 the U.S. President (Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July...