Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried & true background for these familiar dramatics is the Custer expedition against the Sioux that ended in the disaster of the Little Big Horn. But, even during the massacre, the film hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking...
...naturales, once so narrowly that blood from his flank streaked her tight-fitting pants. "Ole, huera! [Nice going, blondie!]," yelled the crowd. Then Pat executed a series of gaoneras (passes in which the muleta is held with one hand outstretched, the other behind the back). On one rush a horn grazed and jarred her. The fans yelled as they had not yelled since the great Manolete fought years ago in Juarez...
...Morning, "puts an edge on a man." It can put an edge on a writer too. About 15 years ago, H. L. (for Harold Lenoir) Davis marked a fictional trail through the big new country north of California and west of Idaho in a first novel, Honey in the Horn. Author Davis climbed astride the tired old cayuse of the western story, rode it through a bright panorama of the old West, and won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize (1936). In his latest book, Davis goes for the same sort of ride, but over a later terrain: the time...
...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
...Horn on the Play. In Panningen, The Netherlands, when Football Player Jan Janssen killed a rabbit which had strayed on to the playing field, cops charged him with hunting without a license...