Word: gauntlet
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...national limerick contest With entries from Presque Isle to Point Quonset A bit you'd be paid Thus the gauntlet is laid For you to accept from the onset...
...legion of moviegoers (and a lot of us are not culturally disfranchised) who like Clint Eastwood movies [Jan. 9]. Why? Because after a tough day of lecturing and sitting through a department meeting on course changes for the 83rd time, I find it fun to watch, in Gauntlet, a bus get the hell shot...
Correspondent Paul Witteman boned up for his Eastwood interviews by seeing three of the actor-director's movies (The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does...
...automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop?Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition job. As for Reynolds, his Southern drawl is not all that different from a Western one; both are the accents of the Sunbelt frontier. He too is usually a loner, as isolated behind the steering wheel of truck or sports car as any cowboy...
...Eastwood, his annual Christmas release in 1976 was The Enforcer, third in his "Dirty Harry" series. It cost only $4 million to make. So far, it has grossed ten times that amount. His new picture, The Gauntlet, in which he also plays a cop (although this time a much less confident one), is running ahead of The Enforcer at the box office. For both men, these successes are predictable in vehicles that fulfill the expectations of their audiences, mostly people who, as Reynolds' pal Comedy Writer Hank Bradford says, "have to take two steps up [into their pickup trucks...