Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replace the mufflers. If the economy booms, so do sales of Chopped Vans. Still, Weiger is not satisfied. "We see the ordinary customer only a couple of years after he buys his car," he laments. "That's not soon enough. We'd like to sell him shock absorbers and other things." The company is now also operating three self-service gas stations. The Midas touch, it seems, is still there. One station pumped 115,000 gal. in its first month, almost four times as much as the average brand station...
...desperate attempt to turn his losers into winners, the coach (Paul Newman) converts the team from skaters into brawlers?tank-town versions of the old, notorious Philadelphia Flyers. His tactics are as low as the team's skills in language arts, and just as effective. Slowly one passes from shock to sympathy and laughter. One appreciates as well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film...
Keith B. Russell '80, one of the first students to reach Sobil, said yesterday Sobil was "coherent and conscious, although obviously in shock...
Judy Rabinowitz and Elinor Apthorp placed fourth and sixth respectively while alpiner Karen Linsley pulled off what she termed "the shock of the weekend" with a 10th-place finish in the five-kilometer race...
This is not exactly news. At this late date, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone who is unaware of that accusation. Yet the movie assumes that a President (nicely played by Charles Durning as an ordinary man growing under pressure) would be shocked speechless by this revelation and his advisers would conspire to have him assainated rather than let him acknowledge something everyone knows. There is all kind of talk about the country's not being able to stand the shock, but the script insists on quoting some of the infamous documents that are preying on Lancaster...