Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colorful tapestry hangs as a curtain over the window, replacing the standard-issue white shade. A red-velvet-covered wood table sits next to an easy chair, while a hand-carved blow gun hangs above the fire-place...
...ambitions of a former president have plunged Albania's capital into chaos, and Western leaders are understandably nervous. Three people have been killed and 14 wounded since Sunday in gun battles between government troops and supporters of ex-president Sali Berisha. Berisha, who was voted out in 1997 after the collapse of a moneymaking pyramid scheme plunged the country into anarchy, claims the current government assassinated one of his key aides. "Berisha's been trying to get back into power ever since his ouster," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The death of Adem Hajdari is his latest...
...Give us a straight-shooting pro-gay advocateover a gun-shy homosexual," wrote Bay Windowseditor Jeffrey Epperly in the newspaper'sendorsement...
CHARLTON HESTON, you adorably cranky gun-toting thing, you. Is it because you're president of the N.R.A. that you feel you can shoot from both hips? In an industry in which public criticism is an unforgivable faux pas if not a cardinal sin, you opened fire on two of show-biz-land's most beloved citizens. First there was the charming advice you told the New York Daily News you gave ROBERT DE NIRO, that he ought to do Shakespeare. "It's ridiculous for an actor that good to keep playing Las Vegas hoods. That's terrible," you said...
...kind of just a hired gun...