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...Liked to surprise the 130 state employees he oversaw with "thunderbolt" exercises by walking into their offices and saying, "Okay - there's a fire in the building and you have to evacuate. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEMA Chief W. Craig Fugate | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...years ago, you hosted a screening at the IFC Center in New York City of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a buddy heist flick with Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...Thunderbolt encompasses everything I love about movies. It's got badass action, it's got some of the funniest dialogue between characters, it's got a genuine, sympathetic, dramatic relationship at its core - what more do you need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...room, talking and smoking weed and watching TV and then there's a guy getting his foot shot off. We didn't exactly have a specific role-model film. We were just looking at great reference points all over the place - from something deeply embedded in my tastes, like Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to the more tongue-in-cheek, trashy '80s action movies that I enjoy for their camp value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pineapple Express Director David Gordon Green | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...Recent developments in dream research won't make sense without first touching on the academic thunderbolt of 1977, when a paper by two Harvard neurophysiologists, Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, ran in the American Journal of Psychiatry. At the time, Sigmund Freud's theory of dreams (which holds, in part, that dreams preserve sleep by distracting the brain with reflections of the unconscious) was a pillar of psychiatry. In The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process, the Harvard pair challenged Freudian theory on virtually every point. They argued that dreams are nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: While You Were Sleeping | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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