Word: truck
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...forthcoming John Travolta film) and a recent series of scary, attention-getting commercials by attention-needing presidential candidate Richard Lugar. Of course, the appeal of nuclear weapons to terrorists is obvious: if destabilizing society or drawing attention to one's cause is the goal, a mushroom cloud outranks truck bombs and sarin attacks...
...accused, this Timothy McVeigh? What kind of person would park a rented truck filled with several thousand pounds of explosives next to a building busy with the early-morning comings and goings of innocent people? Federal investigators and journalists quickly began digging into McVeigh's past, looking for pieces of the appalling Oklahoma City puzzle. Not surprisingly, the fragments did not fit together in a way that would convincingly explain a monstrous deed...
...federal siege that ended in fire and death on April 19, 1993, exactly two years before the Oklahoma City bombing. "It was very poorly handled," he says. Was it Waco that set him off on a path through Arizona and on to Kansas, where he allegedly rented the Ryder truck that carried the bomb, and then to Oklahoma City, where eyewitnesses saw him on the morning of the explosion? Will his trial, sometime in 1996, exonerate him? And if not, will it somehow make comprehensible the mind behind that blank, ordinary face; a mind that led a man to slaughter...
...MILK? CAMPAIGN Unlike the print ads that force attractive celebrities to don unsightly white mustaches, the series of television spots promoting the joys of milk consumption are gems of sketch comedy. The best has a smug yuppie hit by a truck and beamed to another world replete with yummy cookies and a beckoning refrigerator stocked with milk. Heaven? Nope, all the containers are empty. Hell...
...DELIVERY SERVICE Three TV spots for DHL parody advertisers' fear tactics, as they exaggerate the perils of entrusting foreign-package delivery to no-name operators. One scenario: your parcel ends up in the hands of an aspiring Russian rock star, who holds band practice in his delivery truck and uses the pieces of cargo as drums...