Word: desperado
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...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...
...greatest asset of The Long Run is also what bogs it down. In abandoning the slick mediocrity of Hotel California, the Eagles have sacrificed the unity of their previous albums. The old style was wearing thin, but it was the Eagles; and its only vestige is the desperado voice of Don Henley. The new cuts have more depth, but they point in many different directions...
...insist to this day that Butch beat it back to the U.S. around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood or mere hood?) will long stay alive...
...future that could never be. Endless rascality ultimately becomes tedious and irksome; all the world loves a confidence man until it discovers its wallet is missing. Yet Wolff's account of this misspent life is absorbing throughout. It is not just the story of "a wreck of a desperado," as he calls the Duke at one point; it is an engrossing, often moving search for the troubled bond between sons and fathers that is known as love...
...explains as he and a friend unload a pair of deer. "Hunting is one of the few things you can do these days that'll get you away from women," says a plaid-clad man who calls himself "just Charley." "Yeah," concurs his companion, a mustached, bandoleered desperado manqué who identifies himself (unnecessarily) as "Red." "Opening day is when we go off into the woods and talk dirty...