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...grounds of the Ladies Clinic and demanded that he remove them; he complied. At 7:30, after receiving a distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing: there won't be any more babies killed today...
...film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal his handlers, he would ride the tram past the U.S. embassy and activate a miniature "burst" transmitter hidden in his pocket. During postings abroad, he would pass information face to face: in the back alleys of Rangoon or among the bulrushes along the Yamuna River in New Delhi, where his CIA contact would pretend to fish while a hidden recorder taped Polyakov's staccato military briefing, punctuated by peacocks screeching...
...Alabama Senator Howell Heflin, after his wife's underwear appeared in his pocket...
...command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville, Florida, psychiatrist who worked in a veterans' hospital and sees the film...
...from a Chain Gang to Field of Dreams, the male weepie has been a dependable genre. And Gump, to its credit, is not one of those cry-by-night (but you hate yourself in the morning) exercises in emotional blackmail. It's fairly honorable about picking your heart's pocket...