Word: desperado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against the wall. He'd walk away from trouble if he could." The whole mess baffles Bar Owner Phyllis Sans. "It's just a damn shame it had to happen. Two men are dead, and one man's running for his life," she sighs, "but he's no desperado...
After his long reign, the Soviet Union was no longer a public desperado banging shoes to gain attention...
...even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...
...magazine article and is, in a sense, a feature piece on Stroup. Anderson portrays Stroup as the classical tragic hero, and some of the biographical information could have been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson describes Stroup...
...flamboyant, god-like director (Peter O'Toole) and his company on location near San Diego. The company's star stunt man has been killed and the arrest must be temporarily concealed; the fugitive needs a refuge until the heat is off. The director has seen that this hard-bitten desperado was indirectly responsible for his stunt man's death, and, suggesting to Railsback that his options are a bit limited, offers the fugitive the dead stunt man's role for $600 a stunt. The fugitive takes to his job well until he begins to suspect that he may be slated...