But once the car's battery died, and the roof started leaking, and the doors stuck shut, and the steering wheel rapped his knees, and the sunroof latches thwacked him in the head, John Martin's new car seemed more like something from the garage of Inspector Clouseau.
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In the mid 1940s, Sen . Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee, then in his late 70s, was sensitive enough about his age that when a passerby asked, " How are you today ? " he took it as a comment on his fitness and thwacked the questioner with his cane.
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The director's past offenses include making martyrs of Emily Watson in " Breaking the Waves " and Bjork in " Dancer in the Dark, " and fools of the Danish bourgeoisie in " The Idiots, " movies that thwacked virtue and devotion with a crowbar.
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And on 3, WHUMP !, his meaty mallet thwacked the counter top, signifying how the table's toughness would be put to the test when, during homework-helper duty, he deemed it necessary to refocus his 13-year-old's attention away from his Extra-Extra-XL " Tupac"
