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...witnesses wore black robes and cowls and testified through voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with...
...craziness only starts there. Out of work and out of luck, Otto--who is played by Emilio Estevez, a dead ringer for his father. Martin Sheen--joins up with the repo men, getting a harsh initiation into the world of jimmying locks, seizing parked cars, and avoiding gunfire from disgruntled debtors. He thought he was tough, but here he meets some people who are really out on the fritz. Here's Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton), a frazzled repovet who first brings Otto into the business--getting him to help him with a difficult heist--and then befriends...
...another, we have all felt it. If it were a color, we would say it comes in a thousand shades, from vivid reds to somber browns. There is the quick, flashing smart of a ringer scorched by a flame or the grinding torment of the dentist's drill striking close to a nerve. We all know the dull throb of a stubbed toe that sends us hippity-hopping from foot to foot in search of distraction. And many have felt the pain that cuts deeper: the gut-clutching agony that we awaken to after surgery...
...many people . . . think that during the last 3½ years the world has moved closer to war?" Reagan had been prepped by two mock press conferences with his staff. "That is because that's all most of the people have been hearing . . . that I somehow have an itchy ringer and am going to blow up the world," he said...
Although Colman introduced the going to Harvard. Fresh is not the first cowbell ringer Its originator is Adam Beren '83, who started playing his sophomore year "I saw someone from another school playing one, and I though it was a great idea," he said Beren played in "almost every game last year it was really big when the team won the Bean...