Word: handgun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also set up an academy of frontier skills. Hundreds of extras were made to practice skating for weeks. There were also courses in waltzing, horse and buggy handling, bullwhipping, and music for a band using instruments of the time. Kristofferson and Walken took handgun lessons from a former Green Beret weapons specialist. French Actress Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker) was installed in Wallace's real-life whorehouse for three days to learn the rituals over which she would preside in the film...
...other facts contradicted any tidy theory. White was no political extremist. "I respect the private rights of all people, including gays," he had insisted during debate on the gay rights ordinance. (He was also in favor of handgun controls.) He and Milk got along well on the board, at least until recently...
They are the pampered slaves of enervating rituals, of which this dinner party is one. Perhaps Doctorow himself has attended one too many of these gatherings since he attained renown with his bestselling novel Ragtime. If so, he has achieved a suitable revenge. Before he flashes the handgun, Edgar (Christopher Plummer), the garrulous gadfly of the group, says quite flatly, "I can't believe that you still believe in the lives we lead...
...from the Pope himself ("I beg you on my knees") and from the United Nations as they dangled their victim like a political puppet. The end came when they executed Moro with eleven shots fired from a Czech-made Skorpion 7.65-mm pistol and a still unidentified 9.-cal. handgun. Eight shots were centered around his heart. The hatchback Renault in which the body had been placed was left on a narrow, one-block street, Via Michelangelo Caetani, almost equidistant from the nearby headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communists. The location was a contemptuous taunt at both...
Lewis strongly recommended a 20-year minimum sentence for the use of a gun in a crime. He said, "My personal opinion is that possession of a handgun during the commission of a crime shows that a person is willing to take a life while committing the crime. That person is very dangerous...