Word: throwing
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...took several months and a larger than standard dose of Prolixin to stabilize Greg even a little. He continued seeing aliens through August. At one point he tried hitching a ride to Washington to throw a canister of poison gas at George Bush. (The aliens, he said, "wanted Quayle to be President. They felt they could control him.") He got as far as East Los Angeles...
...years old clutching shovels and waiting to board a bus carrying volunteers to work at a nearby sandbagging site. At Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, south of St. Louis, volunteer inmates from the Farmington Correctional Center heaved sandbags side by side with people from the neighborhood. "Man, these guys can throw sandbags like you wouldn't believe!" marveled Gerald Basler, a highway- maintenance worker. "Some of these guys can catch them in midair with one hand!" Ken Novak, who is serving eight years for first-degree assault, showed a reciprocal friendliness. "We had one lady who had tears in her eyes...
...change. The Tonyies' new material is more sophisticated, emotionally and musically. Tell Me Mama consciously evokes the best of the Jackson 5 (without copying them), and then inventively toys with the groove in a horn break. Near the end of the funky What Goes Around Comes Around, the Tonyies throw in a reggae rap, performed by Trinidadian rapper General Grant. And on the 9-minute song Anniversary, Raphael sings of mature, lasting love over a sea of strings: "I've only made plans to hold your little hand/ It's our anniversary...
...Zooropa" is artistically exhilarating, the experimental cutting edge. Most bands would become comfortable upon reaching U2's level of success, and churn out more of the same old stuff. U2, however, has decided to stir up the familiar components and throw in a few new elements. Consider it an experiment to see if the public can accept a changing...
...negative review of Last Action Hero? Columbia executives, crazed with anxiety in their corporate bunker, were peeved when the Los Angeles Times published a free-lance writer's lighthearted, thinly sourced account of a preview screening that the studio plausibly insists never occurred. But did they have to throw an embarrassing, no-win tantrum? Unless the newspaper agreed to keep the reporter from mentioning Columbia Pictures ever again, the studio said it would have nothing to do with anybody from the Times. "It's like Nixon in the last days of Watergate," says a Columbia employee. As Nixon learned...