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You could have a very gay time on Happyhillock or Merryhillock, a rotten time on Rottenhill, a gruesome time at Gallowhills, and it is up to you what you do on Ballhill !
There is a gruesome Stephen King story, called "Survivor Type," in which a heroin-addicted surgeon marooned on a desert island successively amputates each of his limbs in order to survive.
This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.
It's about infanticide, it's about a procedure so gruesome the American Medical Association is opposed to it."
bite the bullet If you visit a Revolutionary War battle site, like Fort Ticonderoga, you may see some gruesome artifacts in its museum—bullets with teeth marks in them.