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...famous operations: the Olympic attack and, in 1973, the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Khartoum. Abu Daoud was sitting at a table in the second-floor cafe of Warsaw's Victoria Inter-Continental Hotel last week when a young man suddenly appeared and hit him with five pistol shots. Abu Daoud was seriously wounded; the assailant escaped...
...Jack Slade and Sam Healey are forced to land their aging C-47 in the icy outback. Charlie Blue, a Tlingit Indian shaman, appears and assists them through a surpassingly beautiful valley to rescue. The pilots promise to return, but before they can, Healey leaves Slade holding a smoking pistol and a murder rap in the wake of a saloon brawl. End of partnership. Slade settles down to homestead the secret valley. Thirty years later Healey ruthlessly claims a lake of high-grade petroleum that lies beneath the glacial moraine...
...stone-countenanced and mysterious Harry Parker, the heavyweights have dominated the nation for years. The heavies finally lost their annual four-mile race with Yale in June for the first time in 19 years. (Rumors that crew alums subsequently left Parker alone in a room with a loaded pistol did not, however, prove accurate...
James Bond movies are known for racy scenes, but the sexiest part of For Your Eyes Only may very well be the advertising poster. It is standard Bondage: a cheeky shot of a woman dangling a crossbow in her hand while Roger Moore, as 007, aims a pistol between her calipered legs. While Boston did not go so far as to ban the poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually...
Graeme Campbell rants nicely as the bragging toper Pistol, whose tavern cronies Bardolph and Nym are sharply limned by Raymond Skipp and Norman Allen. (These two double as the soldiers who converse with the disguised king in a night scene far too brightly lit by Marc B. Weiss.) Aideen O'Kelly is a passable Mistress Quickly and a better Queen of France...