Word: pistol
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...cash and a set of brass knuckles, were three computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like that of the author's death--right down to the pistol and the holed wall--in which white racist militia members hang a detective-story writer outside his office window. The difference is that on the disks the hero climbs back up the rope and evens up matters with the pistol. In real life, however, dead is dead (and puzzles sometimes...
...latest--and most impressively pedigreed--of these new series is ABC's Gun, which starts on April 12 and runs in Relativity's old time slot (Saturdays, 10 p.m. EDT). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol--an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last...
...themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. The novella Bear and His Daughter portrays the explosive meeting of two such lost souls: a drunken poet on a reading tour in the Mountain States and his illegitimate daughter, who is now 31 and a park ranger packing a pistol. Her boyfriend, fearing what may come of the father's visit, tells her, "I hope God helps you. You should...
...inventiveness?with something other than cliches?" TELEVISION . . . GUN: The latest?and most impressively pedigreed?of this spring's slate of cop shows is ABC?s 'Gun,' which starts on April 12 (Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol?an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last. But then arbitrariness is the show?s only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. "In some ways, 'Gun' resembles a camp...
...Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer for the Irish mob, hands him a pistol and tells him to make himself scarce. "These guys are psychos. I just don't know how it's gonna play out," says Paddy...