Word: breakout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakout from the prison gate many of the fugitives simply flagged down passing motorists and forced them out of their cars. One group of about 15 men stole three vehicles from a local farm, forcing a teen-age boy to explain the automatic controls of a car. Another tried to escape in a taxi. Police dragged four men, all of them either naked or clad only in underpants, out of the nearby River Lagan, where they had been submerged and were breathing through reeds. Another was marched away, blood dripping from a gunshot wound to his arm. The apprehended...
...revamped Saturday Night Live; he was paid $750 a show. "His effect was dazzling," says John Landis, his director on Trading Places, of those early shows. "There was a ding! when he walked on, almost like Marilyn Monroe." Soon he was the program's one breakout star. Next season he will return for at least ten shows, at $30,000 an appearance...
...small town by an overzealous sheriff who mistakes him for a hippie (there is a certain antique air about the movie, which is based on a 1972 novel), he returns to assert his right to come and go as he pleases. This leads to jail, a breakout and the extraordinary wilderness chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare. The movie occasionally pauses to strum a familiar ironic...
Meanwhile, British Royal Marine commandos, backed by 7.8-ton Scorpion tanks, which move with relative ease through swampy areas, had begun their own breakout from the beachhead. Traveling eastward from Port San Carlos, they were moving along roads that were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...
...Documents seized on Jan. 9 in raids on three Red Brigades hideouts in Rome revealed a frightening agenda for terror: a rocket assault on Christian Democratic Party headquarters, the assassination of a leading Roman judge, the kidnaping of a Fiat executive, bomb attacks on police stations and a mass breakout by jailed left-wing terrorists. Amid the weaponry confiscated in the raids were three Soviet-made antitank grenades with launchers, two French-made air-to-ground missiles and a collection of small arms and plastic explosives...