Word: ricocheting
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...Hockey: Chaotic, confusing and brutal--perfect for a first date. Grab the puck from the neutral zone and take a ricochet shot from outside...
Nicholson constructs the book as a series of vignettes that ricochet between various times and modes of exposition--several scenes are unveiled as journal entries--but that all converge on London. Not surprisingly, the city becomes the novel's catchall metaphor, and therein lies the book's essential problem: to complete the metaphor, the characters get stitched rather awkwardly into the narrative, as if merely to cover holes in its fabric, and the clumsiness of their insertion detracts from the clever manipulations of Nicholson's plot...
...shopping day, with more than $2 billion in sales--the outlines of what's hot and what's not this Christmas are swiftly becoming clear. Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation ($300) are also likely to be in big demand this year...
...turning the spirit of cooperation into reality by laying out exactly how the Israelis will withdraw their troops from most towns and villages of the West Bank by the end of next March, transferring civil authority to an elected Palestinian Council. Its 304 pages of articles, annexes and appendixes ricochet back and forth between the abstract and the arcane, recoiling from pledges of "mutual understanding and tolerance" to notes on how many adzuki beans the Palestinians could import from Jordan...
Late in the game, Konik fired a one-timer that appeared to ricochet off the back of the net, but was not ruled a goal. Would the chance ever arise again...