Word: thundered
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Unfortunately, for every one of these elegant moments, there are two or three heavy-handed ones to drown it out. And by the time lightning and thunder begin to roll on cue, we realize we're watching a sermon, not a movie. Admittedly, the subject of sensational journalism offers plenty to preach about. "Today, the journalist discovers the news at the same time as the audience," Costa-Gavras warns, "He doesn't have time to put events into perspective." Gavras makes an excellent point. Mad City could also have profited from a little perspective. Its creators failed to notice that...
...Federal investigators have yet to point the finger at the union boss, but the very existence of the allegation ? that his campaign manager used a Massachusetts telemarketer to funnel $221,000 out of the Teamster treasury ? has stolen some of his thunder. "Carey's reputation as a reformer is shattered," says TIME's Bruce Van Voorst. "His halo is tarnished...
...kicked things off with the country-rock song Rodeo ("Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud"), followed that with the homicidal country stomp Papa Loved Mama ("Mama's in the graveyard/ Papa's in the pen") and also churned out a theatrical rendition of The Thunder Rolls, a song that ends with a woman reaching for a pistol to kill her cheatin' man ("Tonight will be the last time/ She wonders where he's been"). Whew! With crime rates dropping in the Big Apple, Brooks may be a little too rough for the city slickers...
...Born Yesterday [2]-Flight of the Intruder [3]-Marie [4]-Curly Sue [5]-Days of Thunder [6]-Die Hard with a Vengeance [7]-The Hunt for Red October [8]-Thunderheart [9]-Feds [10]-In the Line of Fire [11]-Aces: Iron Eagle...
DENVER: ?It was a thunder, boom sound,? Helene Garrett recalled Friday, one of the first nine witnesses testifying in the trial of Timothy McVeigh. ?I screamed and everything started falling.? Even some reporters started crying during Garrett?s description of the last time she saw her infant son Tevin, at the daycare center in the Murrah federal building. Desperately looking for her son in the rubble, Garrett watched the rescue workers as ?they carried out the babies, and they were wrapped in sheets.? Three days later, Tevin was found. ?I kissed his feet, and I kissed his legs,? said...