Word: ricochetting
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...Sikh guards in her tamarind-scented garden on a sunny October morn. She had just bid her guards "Namaste," the gracious Indian salutation accompanied by the crossing of hands before the face. Assassination may be the most invidious of terrorist acts, since the consequences can ricochet disastrously through a country and beyond. Mrs. Gandhi's death produced such a tragedy: some 2,000 Indians perished in the flames of sectarian violence that followed...
...loser from Loserville; and Mozart, he's the guy who wrote Elvira Madigan, and his first name is Mostly, isn't it? The film's $18 million budget may be less than is spent on many a teenpic flop, but it still makes Amadeus a ricochet roll of the dice; the film will have to bring in more than $40 million at the box office just to break even...
...salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity. But to say this is to assume that Mamet's ear-to-the-gutter dialogue is naturalistic. It is not. This is street slang refined and extended into the surreal, the baroque, the abrasive, the lyrical. And as spoken in blazing ricochet rhythms by his energized septet of actors-especially Mantegna, Prosky and Lane Smith as a harried customer who comes close to emotional collapse-Mamet's absurdist riffs almost make sense...
Those images will then ricochet to receiving dishes at Harvard and Yale clubs nationwide, although individual cable buffs with the right system could pick it up as well...
...game's first 15 minutes, two apparent Harvard goals were nullified by the officials. The first, on a shot from outside the circle by Martin, seemed to ricochet off Ram goalie Deb Robson's pads and into the net. The referees ruled the shot did not touch her, thereby using the score...