Word: shotgunful
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...throughout life from birth through marriage, children, to death and cremation. We live in a fairly large village or town, probably with a population of 7,000 to 10,000. Within our village there are 9 banjars. Balinese banjars are famous for delivering village justice on the spot, including shotgun weddings and death by bludgeoning for burglars. When a suspected thief is caught by the banjar, the thief yells for the police. Traffic accidents are often handled on the spot also; usually the verdict is no-fault with payment decided more on the basis of need than the merits...
Bush's new idea for in-flight security is a very old idea: have federal marshals ride shotgun on the airliners, much as they did in the days of the stagecoach. There are now perhaps three dozen marshals to cover 30,000 daily flights. Finding and training marshals, as Bush proposes, will take months. Still, the idea of armed plainclothes marshals will serve as a deterrent...
Rowley stepped out of the shotgun and aimed for a receiver, only to have his offering swatted away by junior defensive end Mike Armstrong. On the very next play, Rowley got the ball and took a few steps to the right only to be pulled down by senior defensive end Marc Laborsky for a loss...
When Nirvana's Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted shotgun blast in 1994 at age 27, it marked the end of a short life plagued by family troubles, heroin addiction and struggles with fame. His story certainly wasn't heavenly, but it was heavy, and Cross--a grunge sponge who conducted 400 interviews for this serious, substantial biography--lays it all out vividly. Extraordinary access to Cobain's unpublished journals helps the narrative move like the best Nirvana anthems: a slow build, some off-kilter rhythms, softly seductive passages followed by loud screams and a devastating finish. Smells like...
...Whether you care about Hellman's case or not, $15 for 250 pages of comics still works out to a great deal. "Legal Action Comics" takes the shotgun approach to anthology-making. Some contributions are unreadable, but with so many of them you always find something enjoyable within a few pages. The creation of this book will inevitably be the best thing born out of such asinine circumstances...