Word: ricocheting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...
...shot down, "blood capsules" fired from compressed air guns splatter against Plexiglas plates hidden beneath the victim's clothing. There are special bullets filled with flaked aluminum to simulate shattering glass; others are packed with a sticky powder to make telltale puffs of dust when they ricochet off a wall...
...With a pretense of social protest, the film tries for realism as it pans in on Spanish Harlem and enters slums where children sleep on pallets and adults line up nine-deep to use the bathroom. But what the cameras actually record is little more than a Puerto Ricochet from the smallest-bore gangster plot in the film maker's gun cabinet...
Dobie methodically woos her and the others (15 others) with slang of every vintage-words and phrases which, in the imagination of Author Shulman, ricochet along high school corridors in 1959. Dobie starts out safely enough, tells what "bugs" him, what's "a gasser," who's "kooky" and "all that jazz." But in no time at all, the gassers have become "marvy," the jazz is "jive," and people start "yacking away." An echo from the past informs everyone to "stay loose." Another, from the Dark Ages, adds...
...Ricochet. In Fort Worth, Shorty's Café resounded with gunfire because its owner hid his revolver in the stove and forgot to tell the cook...