Word: tars
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...stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat the tar...
...Flintstones fares better than Maverick. In Bedrock the finest restaurant is the Cavern on the Green. Down at the drive-in they're playing Tar Wars. People talk about spending a relaxing week in Rocapulco. Puns may be the lowest form of humor, but in this movie such wordplay is the only possible accompaniment for the pictureplay that runs throughout this merry story of "a modern Stone Age fam-il-ee": newspapers carved in stone; cars powered by feet; prehistoric creatures employed as primitive, parodic versions of contemporary labor-saving devices (dinosaurs are adapted to be lawn mowers, garbage disposals...
...Smokers may be inhaling more tar and nicotine than they think. "Light" brands have filters to screen out both substances -- but research shows most people puff harder to compensate for the weak flavor...
James Miller, once Ronald Reagan's Budget Director, scrambling to overtake North in the fight for the Republican nomination, is willing to try anything to tar North as untrustworthy. Last week Miller made public voluminous personal records -- including medical and financial data -- while challenging North to do the same. That would remind voters that the former Marine officer was hospitalized 20 years ago for emotional stress. The ploy also revived rumors, which North denies, that he somehow expunged mention of that therapy from his Marine dossier before he joined Ronald Reagan's National Security Council staff...
...some Swarthmore students believe that Bloom in his creative sentencing was succumbing to intimidation rather than battling it. "If I had my way, we'd tar and feather and toast him," says sophomore Laura Starita of Yearwood. "When you have someone like that, he's a danger to everyone on campus, especially women...