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Once the pious devotions are over, however, wine flows, fireworks explode, espetada (kebab) stalls flourish, and Monte regains normality for another 363 days.
The weapon would use the precision guidance technology already common in planes and tanks to deliver rounds that explode in the air above enemy soldiers, thereby lessening their ability to survive battlefield small arms fire by taking cover.
Any nation determined to explode a nuclear bomb in Uncle Sam's front yard would have to be insane to deliver the insult by missile--it might as well affix a return address to the weapon before firing.
It takes a while to get oriented in Leigh's movies, which, for all their social-realist trappings, frequently explode into caricature and high-theatrical artifice.
The rite is liberating but also frightening: Remove a cork from a bottle so pressurized, and the contents are apt to explode.