He says it began with the netsuke – "small, tough explosions of exactitude" – but "eventually I realised it is actually about identity: what do you know about who you are?
If there's anyone who knows how to judge a movie with a lot of tough guys and explosions, it has to be an 8-year-old boy.
And they were too busy fawning over "the Oracle" Alan Greenspan and his successor, Ben Bernanke, to ask them any tough questions about the explosion in house prices that had nothing to do with supply and demand but everything to do with the orgy of predatory mortgage lending.
Though maybe between a tougher line on torture and the explosion of social networking (Abu Ghraib photos), more people will get busted for it.
The Berkshire stables of Charles "Edgy" Egerton beckon and the author is put under the charge of Trigger, a tough, taciturn Irishman renowned for his legendary explosions.
He speculates it might be 2008 before a "trifecta" of issues the imminent expiration of the Bush tax cuts, retirement of the baby boomers and explosion of the AMT forces Congress to make the tough choices.
The Obama administration is proposing tougher mine safety regulation in the wake of the West Virginia explosion that killed 29 miners last April.
"Several workers were injured during the hydrogen explosions, and telling people to go back into dangerous areas was tough.
Reno had a series of ups and downs in the early 20th century and after gas explosions rocked the city in the late 1950s, Reno went through some tough times.
Evans, who is a planning commission member, said the family had a tough time of it in recent years, including their house burning down in a gas explosion.
