Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...
...member of the Austrian ski team from 1948 to 1951, Fahrner did it with a crew of 45 workers and a network of pipes and hoses that wound 25 miles up Whiteface Mountain. They sprayed water under pressure to create a fine mist that froze instantly and settled on the slopes. In all, 10% miles of slopes have been covered to a depth of as much as 15 ft. For skiing, the man-made snow is not only as good as the natural thing; it is better. The crystal structure of man-made snow is denser; it forms smaller flakes...
...that it symbolizes, should not be exploited to make a political statement or to strengthen our foreign policy. Yet President Carter demands that we boycott the summer Games in Moscow not only for the symbolic significance of such a stand, but also to hurt the Soviet economy and wound their pride. By not participating in the Games, he hopes to make an international statement of our condemnation of their occupation of Afghanistan (and also of the way that they treat dissidents), yet it is doubtful this statement will have any effect on the USSR. When Vladimir Pozner, a Soviet radio...
...July 1979, 16,000 bottles of liquor were refilled with cheaper booze; not only that, but unmixed drinks served in the Ziegfeld showroom were recycled. Any liquor left untouched after patrons had ogled the floor show went back into the bottle for the next customer. Some of the drinks wound up with more mileage on them than the hoofers in the chorus line. Last week MGM paid $125,000 to settle the charges, presumably a permanent cure for tired drink...
...geometry, a tangle of routes." His present is also lethal and complicated. He must drive four Chinese aliens over the Canadian border into Washington State, detour through Reno and deliver his human cargo in San Francisco. One of the Chinese is bleeding to death from a mysteriously inflicted knife wound. Another, by the name of Ginarn Taam, is being chased by the Triad, a sort of Oriental-American Mafia...