Word: gunpoint
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...during the surreal snowfall last weekend, now they're suffering the hangover. Case in point: as hundreds of car owners dug their vehicles from mountains of plowed-and-packed snow throughout the city's five boroughs Tuesday night, Robert DeJesus was relieved of his brand new snow blower at gunpoint. "I still can't get over it, and I've lived in New York City my whole life," DeJesus, a superintendent of a Bronx apartment building, told the New York Daily News. DeJesus and his 17-year-old nephew were trying to clear the front of his building when...
What should be done in cases where clear proof of marriage does exist? Couples who were forced to marry at gunpoint have living proof of consummation. They would have a much more difficult time procuring an annulment. If they discover that they can not stand each other, over time they will come to resent this child who binds them together. Do man, woman or child deserve to suffer so greatly for a mistake one night in the back of a car? Surely, you cannot blame the child, but it is the child who may be hurt the most...
Couples who were forced to marry at gunpoint have living proof of consummation. They would have a much more difficult time procuring an annulment. If they discover that they can not stand each other, over time they will come to resent this child who binds them together. Do man, woman or child deserve to suffer to greatly for a mistake one night in the back of a car? Surely, you can not blame the child, but it is the child who may be hurt the most...
...famous for not smiling. In a lovely moment from Go West, a tough cowpoke orders him at gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
Like rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...