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...fine print to having "abridged" seven of them. I guess this means that all of the lyrics are not sung, because the album has musically abridged at least twelve of the numbers. Some have survived rather well, others are completely gutted and totally fragmentary. The effect is like a buckshot spray of genius-very tantalizing, but equally unsatisfying...

Author: By John Viertel, | Title: Music Capitol's 'Follies' | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

When Marvin Katko, 30, broke into an abandoned farmhouse near Oskaloosa, Iowa, a shotgun cut loose with a load of buckshot, hitting him in the right ankle. The gun had been tied to a bed, and the trigger was wired to go off when the bedroom door was opened. Katko was arrested, for petty larceny, fined $50 and put on six months' probation. Justice had apparently been done, or so everyone thought-except Marvin Katko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Backfiring Booby Trap | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...California campus, are enthusiastic about the Stun Gun. Captain Charles Plummer, who with three other Berkeley officers served as a guinea pig for the weapon, reported that "it left one hell of a bruise. But if I were a rioter, I think I'd prefer that to buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: The Humane Gun | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...shooting at Jackson State was not the first on that campus. Three years ago, highway patrolmen fired their shotguns in warning, they said, over the heads of rock-throwing students; Ben Brown, a married student and father of a young child, was found with mortal wounds from 00 buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Hotheads and Professionals | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...empty a pair of Colt Peacemakers at. There is not just one whore with a heart of gold, but six. There is the starched, parched lawyer feller and the inevitable gang of scabrous villains without a redeeming virtue to their sinister names. The dialogue is beautifully peppered with the buckshot of obscure Old-West metaphors (Harley: "I used to be a real cedar-breaker, but now I'm just bringing up the dregs"). But the film's sole purpose is to give Stewart and Fonda a chance to weave their well-tuned wiles. The result could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Innocent Revisited | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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