Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy work. The search for oil meant days of chasing rumors over dusty back roads in Texas and Oklahoma, and nights bent over maps studying geological strata. In his spare time, Pickens indulged his passion for Gusher, a board game in which players roll dice to look for oil. Says Amarillo Lawyer Wales Madden Jr., an old friend: "It was uncanny. He always won at that darn game...
...turning upside down as it rolled to the right. The force of the fall ripped off the doors of the landing-gear compartment, and may have sent the 7-ft. by 4-ft. metal sheets tearing through the stabilizing wings at the aircraft's tail. The wild buffeting also bent part of the steering mechanism in the right wing...
...film features Hutton as a modern-day Robin Hood bent on redeeming the good name and reputation of his brother Terry (Robert Urich). A likeable if marginally nutse firefighter. Terry is injured while combatting a fire during his off-duty hours. Because he was slightly inebriated at the time, the city deprives him of his pension and disability payment, now sorely needed to cover escalating medical bills. Jimmy, whose sole occupation appears to be shooting baskets and slouching around the streets of Brooklyn, takes it upon himself to fight the entire municipal administration...
...evil is fun. Teddy Magyk, the creep who stalks Mora from the Caribbean to the Jersey shore, lives with his mother in Margate, in a house done up in a parrot motif. One of his specialties is robbing and raping elderly women. He is between jail sentences and is bent on killing his arresting officer. Who is, of course, Lieut. Mora...
Writer-Producer Mann, who researched the movie by talking to most of the principals, insists that his version is fair and accurate. "I bent over backward to be objective," he says. "This goes beyond whether Wayne Williams is guilty or innocent. The case raises tremendous issues: about the use of fiber evidence, about the use of pattern (the admission of evidence from other $ killings besides the two for which Williams was charged), about the closing of the cases so quickly after the conviction." Some in Atlanta agree that the movie will, at the very least, renew calls to reopen...