Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young TV masters of gross-out, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, being mentored through their major--all right, maybe we're stretching a point here--motion-picture debut by one of the genre's old masters, David Zucker, auteur of Airplane! and the Naked Gun epics...
...Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker...
Afterwards, the musicians did come out for two beautiful encores. The first, John Cale's "Gun," was a song Siouxsie and the Banshees had covered in the past. The second encore was the high-light of the evening. Siouxsie at her best sang as Cale strummed an electric viola for a stunning performance of "Venus in Furs," a song from the legendary 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico. Though originally Lou Reed had sung the lyrics, Sioux's appropriation of the words, "shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather," lent the song a sexy feminine air, which perfectly complemented Cale...
...life in 1972. In 1974 Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal law-enforcement officer. "Disturbed people go there because they think that's where their problems are emanating from...
...Bremmer shot and seriously wounded presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 did the Service learn--from Bremmer's diary--that the would-be assassin had stalked Nixon before turning to the less protected Wallace. So it was with Weston. He made threats against a President, but he took his gun to Capitol Hill...