Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That set the stage for the latest chapter in the case, which began last Wednesday night when an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, Norman Siegel, 29, flew from Washington, D.C., to Seattle, then drove 145 miles to Goose Prairie, Wash., site of Douglas' rustic summer retreat...
...casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble, the Ford has got every other car skinned." Its new owner plans to exhibit the sedan, still bloodstained and riddled with 160 bullet holes, at $2.50 a throw. For him it wasn't exactly a steal...
...drove up to the hotel, got our baggage out, and they had to tow the car away," he says...
...there has been a lot of talk about the Palestinians. They turned to armed resistance. They were worth talking about. They were hijacking planes now. They were called "international outlaws," criminals to be severely dealt with. But nobody bothered to ask what motivated these men and women, what drove them to such desperate acts. One does not have to agree with violent tactics in order to seek an understanding of these events and of the larger questions at issue. Anybody who desires peace in the world in general and peace in the Middle East in particular will have to consider...
...discover that dedicated G-man Purvis retires from the force after killing Dillinger and that thirty years later he shoots himself with the same gun that he used to kill Dillinger. This is the movie's interesting tale and yet it is tacked on as an afterthought. What drove Purvis to such a symbolic end? We would rather explore Purvis' character deeply because we learn nothing of Dillinger...