Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just has a great arm," first-year coach Alex Nahigian said after the game. "It's a gift of God, really. He could throw...
...other name he is Ron Guidry, the best pitcher in baseball-and the best known of that group of 900,000 French-speaking Louisianians, descendants of French farmer-fishermen, who live in the bayou country south and west of New Orleans. Except for Guidry's left arm, Cajuns are known mostly by hearsay. They are reputed to play strange-sounding accordion music, make a mean gumbo, and generally be as colorful as the crawfish in their bayous. The rumors are right, as Journalist William Rushton demonstrates in the first popular survey of Cajun culture...
Journalists who have covered other mid-century conflicts might argue that a side arm is not much protection in a rocket attack. But reporters in Rhodesia counter that their war is different: there are no battle lines, no secure areas∕and every white man is a guerrilla target. "There is no such thing as a neutral here," says one freelancer. "If you've got a white face, you are the enemy. This is a race...
...appears to be the product of all the right decisions about where the camera should be and when it should move. Such ingenuity and control displays itself in ways that are embarrassing to name: the breathtaking efficiency, for instance, with which one character in Assault snaps a man's arm at the elbow; or the startling, gimmicky appearance, time and again, from out of nowhere, of the masked killer in Halloween, whose presence is signalled by an amplified breathing sound and a supernatural thrum. Carpenter's action sequences are especially resourcefully engineered. There is one virtuoso scene in Assault...
...thing that strikes me the most is that he's very open and straight-forward to all the players, which we all appreciate," said pitcher Ron Stewart. "It's like a shot in the arm for the program," he added...