Word: gunfight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Terriers jacked up their lead again in NCAA champion-style. With the clock winding down, sophomore defenseman Tim Kimball fired a blind dart that surprisingly made it by everyone. Johnson then closed out the second period gunfight with 22 seconds left when he slam bammed the puck up and over Lau during a crease scramble for the 7-3 cushion...
...sociological comments about what Clint Eastwood's popularity tells us about Americans' repressed frustrations aside, a violence-glorifying film like Dirty Harry is incredibly dangerous. Its potential impact was dramatized just a month ago when after seeing the movie on television, two young brothers in Cleveland re-enacted a gunfight scene from the film and one accidentally shot the other dead. None of which will, or perhaps should, keep you from going; just save your unleashed hostility for the squash courts or for a few hourlies...
...response to your article "Gunfight at Capitol Hill" [June 6], I suggest that Senator Gary Hart had better check his hearing. The American people are not saying, "Give us what we want." They are saying, "Spend less and we'll take care of ourselves...
...right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted as leading to a different conclusion. The revolutionaries, after kidnapping the Mayor of San Francisco and demanding ransom, have holed up in--you guessed it--Alcatraz. Harry and partner arrive, and after an extended gunfight and hide-and-seek game the only survivors are Harry and the Mayor, a pompous, self-serving fool. As he dusts himself off after his brushes with death, the Mayor promises Harry that "There will be a letter of commendation in this for you." Harry drops the bazooka with which...
...week's end the anguished question remained without answer: Where was Patty Hearst? If indeed she is still alive, authorities believe that she may be found soon. The Los Angeles gunfight cost the S.L.A. its muscle, Donald DeFreeze, and its brains, Nancy Ling Perry. Their combined talents enabled the S.L.A. to dodge their pursuers so successfully in San Francisco...