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Harvard toasters are the only ones ever made that fancy themselves to be deadly time bombs when in use. Insert a few English muffins, heave down the industrial-spring-loaded lever, and ...Tick-Tick-Tick. I wonder what would happen if some law student accidentally left one of these things in his mailbox...
...Tick-Tick-Tick. The bomb squad races in, sweating profusely in their shrapnel-resistant suits...
Even though Back to the Future takes full advantage of its ability to make us laugh, it has its darker side as well. The film opens with a shot of Doc's house in which every nook and cranny is filled with clocks--clocks that tick the future into the present. Time, in fact, enters into every aspect of the movie, becoming so pressing an issue that the small clocks in Doc's house are transformed into a huge clock tower from which he precariously hangs in his attempt to send Marty back to 1985. Back to the Future explores...
Although the Big Red was not as fierce an opponent as Northeastern, it came within one clock-tick of escaping with...
...surface, A.H. Robins of Richmond would seem to be a thriving company. Its popular products, including Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last year generated record sales of $632 million. But the 119-year-old pharmaceutical firm is now facing financial ruin because of a $3 item it has not sold in a decade: the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Deluged by more than 12,000 lawsuits charging that the Dalkon Shield was responsible for countless serious illnesses and at least 20 deaths among the women who used it, Robins last...