Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class comics, Nym and Bardolph are in the capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
These days Machado directs the party from a comfortable, middle-class apartment in Caracas and an office in the National Congress Building. His hair turned a distinguished white, the Communist boss carries (as do many Venezuelan politicos) a .38 pistol in his pocket. Of his family, he says that three of his brothers and two sisters are "members of the oligarchy-but good people in spite of that." He is "proud" of the work of the F.A.L.N., and explains its attacks on U.S. holdings by saying, "The enemy of the Venezuelan liberation movement is the U.S. monopolists...
...brother, Rudolph Valentino Clay, ran up with the brass crown; Cassius bowed his head to receive it-then thought better of the tawdry gesture and waved Rudolph off. As he left the ring, a bitter spectator swung at him. Clay ducked and grinned: "I'll take my pistol to you." In his dressing room, Cassius rubbed cold cream into his tender nose, vainly examined it in a mirror. "I've never had a bloody nose before," he said. "That left hook-I've never been hit so hard by anyone...
...Evers' life. "I've had a number of threatening calls," he said. "People calling me saying they were going to kill me, saying they were going to blow my home up, that I only had a few hours to live. I remember one individual calling with a pistol on the other end, and he hit the cylinder, and of course you could hear that it was a revolver. He said, 'This is for you.' And I said, 'Well, whenever my time comes, I'm ready...
...pageant in Washington, D.C., a sailor emptied a pistol at a spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...