wham

The chopper was near the hospital, “and just about that time, ‘wham!’”

The notion of a retrospective, a staple of museum programming, is less common in the theater, where audiences have been trained to think of theater outings as one-night-stands — wham, bam, thank you Mamet.

With these “stealthy” solar events, “there’s a kind of meager-looking eruption and then, all of a sudden, wham!”

“Stacked up, big storm after big storm after big storm — wham, wham, wham.”

One doesn’t expect to have one’s stomach churned by such a documentary, but then — wham!