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McInally stood up and placed a soccer ball about 20 feet in front of the green baseball backstop next to Watson Rink. He studied the ball for an instant, then flung his lanky frame at it, arms and legs flying in clutzy precision. THWACK! His foot hit the ball. THUD! The ball hit the wooden backstop and bounced back to McInally. He frowned...
...kicked the ball again. THWACK! His foot made contact. THUD! The ball hit wood. McInally stopped the ball with his foot and kicked it again. But this kick didn't please him any more than the last. He was hitting the ball with the wrong part of his foot...
...broke out last April between Phalangists and Moslems. In no time, according to the story, the Iraqis were attacked by Christians. Before long the incident had somehow escalated into Beirut's third round of street fighting in as many months. The stutter of automatic weapons fire and the thud of rockets and mortars echoed through the streets once more, in a continuation of the worst crisis that Lebanon has suffered since 1958, when civil war broke out and U.S. Marines landed. An estimated 450 people were killed during the first two rounds of fighting in April and May. Last...
...watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments--the death is as distanced as the inaudible thud of a body falling 135 stories.) At the end, gelignite releases a flood of one million gallons of water from the water towers on top of the roof, extinguishing the fire in a tremendous rush of steam as it rushes through the burnt out central core of the building...
...screen is completely dark as Shampoo begins. We hear the always-humorous sounds of a bed creaking under the weight of a couple laboring away in their pleasure-making. In a moment there is the thud of something knocking repeatedly against wood. "Ugh...move down some, I'm hitting my head," a female voice can barely whisper between her increasingly heavy pants. The sounds of wriggling in the bed. The panting continues...