Word: pistoling
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...Barnum, with little modification. There is an awful lot of camp, and because of Breuer's theatre sense it almost always works. But it's still camp. And there are shock effects--I am thinking particularly of the murder at the end--that work as well as a pistol shot behind your ear, but are still little more, artistically, than a pistol shot. Of course, there is a large place in the theatre for theatre-as-circus, but it's a little disappointing that a director of Breuer's obvious talent and intelligence should stop there...
...feelings?the passionate antagonism toward Big Government resulting from his boyhood observations of Dixon and his own experiences with the progressive income tax once he returned from the military; his staunch anti-Communism from his days with the Screen Actors Guild in the late 1940s, when he packed a pistol for self-protection. He will read up on a subject once it has initially been proved on his pulses...
...fled to safety. The farm's white manager, 68-year-old Gerald ("Bill") Adams, was shot dead by one of Tekere's confederates as he tried to radio for help. The gunman, Joseph Chakanetsa, claimed to have fired in self-defense when Adams threatened him with a pistol...
...pistol cracks-blanks, but as jolting as the real thing. It's the first murder scene, and Catherine Slade, the actress playing Lulu, calls out for champagne. Someone makes a popping noise with his index finger and mouth...
...C.W.P. members who had witnessed the shootout refused to cooperate with state investigators or to testify at the trial. Video tapes of the incident taken by local television crews showed one of the defendants, Jerry Paul Smith, firing away with a pistol in each hand at one of the victims. The tapes were played several times at the trial, but failed to convince the all-white jury as to which side had fired first. What apparently sowed the most doubt in jurors' minds was an FBI audio-analysis tracing the origins of 39 shots fired in the melee...