Word: ricochet
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...Francisco as the location for Petulia, his first film in the U.S. "It's the most exciting city anywhere on earth," he explained. The excitement, unfortunately, seems to have been too much for him. Petulia is a dazzlement of props and location shots, around which the actors ricochet helplessly through a non-romance between a girl who is some kind of nut and an orthopedic surgeon who seems to be going the same route...
...separate its music into two compatible components. In the bittersweet My Love Is, soft cymbal brushings flick back and forth between the speakers to tickle the listener's ears. Beautiful Delilah starts with vocals out of the left speaker, then switches to the right, while rhythm and piano ricochet right and left; Sportin' Life, featuring a slow, dusky guitar, is a bluesy sound that moves soulfully from left to right and back again...
With seven minutes to play Jack Garrity took a long bomb from Ben Smith at the B.U. blue line and skated in ahead of two defensemen. The Crimson captain faked once, pulled the puck to the left, and shot, to see the puck ricochet off goalie Jim McCann's sprawled...
...ricochet from such economic losses has made politicians more eager than usual to intervene in strikes. Nine states are affected by a strike of 20,000 truckers who haul 60% of finished steel from the mills, which has led to shootings, dynamitings, traffic tie-ups and the furlough of 15,000 steelworkers because their plants have run out of space in which to stack up undelivered steel. The yearly rate of steel shipments is down by about 1,500,000 tons. Pennsylvania's Governor Raymond P. Shafer last week asked the governors of eight other steel-producing states...
Potshots are already beginning to ricochet off the calloused hide of City Manager Joseph DeGuglielmo in response to his latest plan for Cambridge--the consolidation of all the city's health and welfare facilities under one commissioner. His proposal, based on a report by Dr. Leona Baumgartner of Harvard Medical School, has been called everything from ineffectual to illegal...