Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing happens when Searles fires his pistol. Nor when he bangs loudly on the porch with a baseball bat. He tries pepper spray, yelling, "Hey, hey, come on out of there! You can't stay there...
...Chinese government--looking for scary, nonlethal weapons. His plan was to mix dominance, territorial marking and the animals' fear of confrontation to become, he explained to officials, the city's "baddest bear." Soon he began chasing bears from basements and out of school yards with rubber bullets, pepper spray and pistol-loaded screamer rockets. He shouted threats so each bear remembered him. After a bear left a house, Searles marked the den as off limits by sprinkling it with his own urine. "I get a lot of kidding about that," he admits...
...labored in obscurity. Who remembers Brian Hughes? This 1920s box-manufacturing tycoon liked nothing better than to patrol the sidewalk outside Tiffany in New York City, an envelope tucked beneath his arm. When the moment seemed right, and pedestrian traffic sufficient, Hughes would let loose its contents, sending a spray of jewels (all fake) clattering across the sidewalk. The melee that ensued never ceased to please him. On rainy days, he would exit a restaurant and deliberately leave behind an expensive umbrella. When opened by a misappropriater, the umbrella released a shower of leaflets saying THIS UMBRELLA STOLEN FROM BRIAN...
...Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished from Thomas, Wolfe" and "Tom Wolfe...
...necessary to understand that he has a way with the language that is highly amusing in itself. There are also, however, hints of what is to come, but it's not in Guido's nature to let these threats impede his lifestyle. When Guido's family horse is spray-painted green and covered with anti-Semitic slogans, he uses it to carry Dora away from her Fascist husband-to-be. In another scene, Guido pretends to be chief inspector at a school so he can turn an intended lecture on the superiority of the Aryan race into a discussion...