Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim. "Heal!" he cries. "Heal her wounds in the name of Jeee-uh-zuss!" Already, the crowd is murmuring "Thank you, Jesus." The woman sits up. "Oh, thank God," she says. The nurse, at Allen's request, trundles her off to check the wounds in the ladies' room. She is back quickly. "There is new skin covering where the burns are," she announces. "It's a miracle...
...resist, and Ling backed off. But his appetite had been whetted. He started looking for other steel companies. By reading annual reports, he became interested in Jones & Laughlin. First there was a correct but tense meeting at the elegant Rolling Rock Country Club outside Pittsburgh, then a secret hotel-room huddle in Cleveland. Though J. & L. Chairman Charles Beeghly was far from eager to sell his controlling shares, he considered Ling's offer so generous?some analysts insist that it was too generous for LTV's good ?that he agreed to go along...
...desert rats. But the officer has rodents of his own-junkies, homosexuals, thieves, who compose his squadron. Only proper, announces his commandant, since "war is a criminal enterprise." So is Play Dirty, which leaves no oases of taste or drama along its route. There is also no room for Caine, a skilled actor, to display his talents in a war picture that could give hell a bad name...
...average sales records, but as the film progresses, his luck turns ("I can't get any action . . . These people are croaking me"). He finally quits to sell roofing and siding. In the film's last scene, The Badger stands framed in the doorway of his Florida motel room, confessing failure to a fellow salesman and barely brushing past an emotional breakdown...
...other parts of their bodies lopped off by a devious ax murderer-or murderers. On the squash court of New York's Eli Club, Professor Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic women, a semi-transvestite, and other odd characters...