Word: spurter
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...this light novel about such weighty notions as justice and law. Gaddis' chief litigant is Oscar Crease, a self-described "last civilized man" who brings suit to prove that his high-minded (and unproduced) stage play was stolen by the producers of a big-screen Civil War blood spurter that features "the most widely discussed mass rape scene in screen history." Crease is also suing his insurance company, which isn't paying him for injuries suffered when his stalled car suddenly ran over him. His father, a cagey federal judge, is hearing the case of an artist who wants...
...Spruce School has a large Mexican enrollment, and this provided an interesting sidelight. Among the "spurter" Mexican boys with faces that loked Anglo-Saxon showed higher gains than those with more identifiably Mexican faces...
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