Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane crash last December while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Hunt also credits his wife with suggesting the book's ending. On the way to the airport for the fatal flight, he says, "she told me that the original ending was just too pat, that the good guys won too easily. She said. The evildoers of the world are not always punished, sometimes the son of a bitch gets away with it and the good people don't.' I dropped her off, thought about it and decided she was right. I was sitting...
...White House tells it, Nixon and Wife Pat took a fancy in 1969 to the ten-room, Spanish-style house in San Clemente where the late millionaire real estate developer Henry Hamilton Cotton liked to entertain his fellow Democrats, once including Franklin Roosevelt. The Nixons wanted only the house and a parcel of 5.9 acres, but the Cotton heirs insisted on selling the entire property, covering 24.6 acres. To swing the deal, the Nixons agreed to pay $1.4 million, with $400,000 in cash and a $1,000,000 mortgage...
...PAT GARRETT AND BILLY...
...story that has been told many times over: how Pat Garrett shot down Billy the Kid, who was his friend. It has never been told so strangely, however, with such a stern sense of beauty and of fate, as it is here by Sam Peckinpah. He is one of the most prodigious of all American film makers, and perhaps also one of the most prodigal...
...answerable to the ranchers and the politicians in Santa Fe. It is their star, their job, and they want Billy out of the way. Garrett rides down to Old Fort Sumner to give him a warning and a few days' head start. Billy makes an ironic toast: "Sheriff Pat Garrett-sold out to the Santa Fe ring. How's it feel?" "It feels," Garrett tells him with unmistakable finality, "like times have changed...