Word: gunfighting
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...truth; the camera could lie too, and we would have to decide whether to believe it. Welles dragged the movies into modernism, with sequences that keep playing in any film lover's imaginary screening room: the three-story family squabble in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); the hall-of- mirrors gunfight in The Lady from Shanghai (1948); the sinuous tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil (1958) with a bang; the magnificent pacifist battle scene in Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff (1966); and the Chinese-box structure of F for Fake (1975). The last title was appropriate, for Welles ended his directorial film...
Rustler's Rhapsody is an old-west camp comedy that slowly unfolds the tale of Rex(Tom Berenger) and his sidekick Pete (G.W. Bailey). Rex travels the desert looking for bad guys in black hats to gunfight. He never kills them; he just shoots the guns out of their hands. (Guns don't kill people; guns kill guns.) Rex, because he is a good guy, always wins. But the bad guys, because they are let off, always come back. Ad infinitam. It is Rex's karma. An endless circle. Yin-yang, Yawn...
...other vessels, had been taking part in a routine Chinese naval exercise when two crew members seized control. Apparently, they intended to take the ship to South Korea, and from there they hoped to defect to Taiwan. Their plan, however, had gone awry as the mutiny turned into a gunfight in which the six crew members were killed and both mutineers were wounded...
...received an anonymous letter saying the two missing men might be found at the ranch of Manuel Bravo Cervantes, a former legislator, in Michoacan state. When some 30 federal judicial policemen approached the Bravo house, the police say, shots from inside killed an officer, setting off a half-hour gunfight. Bravo, his < wife and their two sons died in the battle. The police claimed they later seized two pounds of cocaine and a slew of guns and ammunition...
...gang's founder, Robert J. Mathews, 31, was killed during a gunfight with federal agents on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution...