Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
Tales
Both words in one sentence
- In the Roald Dahl story "Lamb to the Slaughter" (filmed as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and later as an episode of Tales of the Unexpected), a woman beats her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, and then puts it in the oven to roast as if nothing had happened.
Source: Eat the Evidence - Also, Lina drops the F bomb a lot in the prologue to Tales from Earthsea (though she cools off during the staging of the production proper) and throughout Angel Beats!.
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The entire "Tales of Ash" saga is pretty much a Wham Arc (Rugal has children, Chizuru and Iori lose their powers, the seal on Orochi is broken, Ash beats Orochi Iori effortlessly, etc.), but this is all compounded by the death of Ash.
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