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Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
Callahan said Schroeder jumped out of the patrol car and ran for the front door of the bank while he went to cover the rear. When Schroeder realized he was running into the line of fire, he spun around and ran back, at which point...
...Route 38 at speeds of 100 miles per hour. Bullets careened off both cars. Gilday's was riddled. One officer was grazed on the forchead when a bullet glanced off the front hood. Just as the police exhausted their ammunition, Gilday's car richocheted off another parked car and spun to a stop near a woods. There was more gunfire, then Gilday disappeared...
...release Rackley there. He ordered the car stopped at the end of a dirt road. The four men walked a short distance into the woods. Sams then handed the gun to Kimbro and said, "Ice him, it's orders from national." Kimbro shot Rackley through the head. He spun around and fell to the ground, apparently dead. Sams, Kimbro, and McLucas began to return to the car. Sams gave the 45 to McLucas and told him to go back and make sure Rackley was dead. Believing there was a rifle in the car which Sams and possibly Kimbro might have...
...ceremony welcoming 140 men and women of 37 nationalities who were about to become American citizens. Pat Nixon gave each new citizen an American-flag pin like the one the President wears in his lapel. Then all-including Candidate Smith-adjourned to a buffet table adorned with a large spun-sugar elephant...