Word: thuds
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...America,” which features Wilkis squealing lines like “Ooh, God, I love to eat / wash it down with a cold one and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s,” all done to an unrelenting instrumental thud. “I am responsible for who I am and what I am,” he screeches. Oh, I see, now I get it—you’re mocking American mass consumerism, right...
...With a thud heard round the movie world, Michael Cimino went straight from Oscar winner (The Deer Hunter) to studio wrecker (Heaven's Gate). Neither honor was deserved. Indeed, Heaven's Gate was the better film, with a certain suicidal grandeur about it, like a herd of buffalo stampeding toward a firing squad. United Artists took a $44 million bath on the film and within a year was absorbed by rival MGM. Now, in a delicious triple irony, Final Cut, a UA executive's memoir of the debacle, wins raves; Ted Turner agrees to buy MGM/UA; and the studio releases...
...across a whetstone. Three others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...
...other shoe dropped with a loud thud last week in South Africa. After eleven months of mounting black violence, Executive President P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 riot-torn cities and towns, most of them in the Eastern Cape or near Johannesburg. It was South Africa's first declared emergency in 25 years and gave police expanded powers to make arrests, detain suspects indefinitely, impose curfews and restrict press reporting. The announcement last Saturday upstaged a dramatic funeral in the Eastern Cape. Some 25,000 black mourners converged on the town of Cradock from hundreds of miles...
...holed up in her Los Altos Hills, Calif., home and protected by three security guards, she fielded e-mails from well-wishers and contemplated her next career move--just like so many other cashiered Silicon Valley denizens in recent years. Only none of them had made as big a thud...