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...full grown (I haven't grown an inch since then.) A cop shot me six times point-blank on that job, as I was standing with my hands in the air. After the second shot, when I was certain that he was trying to murder me. I charged him. His gun was empty and he had only hit me twice by the time I had closed with him--Oh, get this wild nigger off me.' ...I had two comrades with me on that job. They both got away because of the exchange between the pigs...
...from succeeding completely in their almost uncanny recreations of the attitudes and mannerisms of the people they played. The well-cast roles of the defendants are dramatic plums for the actors who fill them; the actors are obviously advocates of the play's political position, and when they testify point-blank to the audience, it's personal as well as acted testimony. In that situation, it's difficult for them to speak their own opinions while trying to sustain someone else's identify, and the risk is that personal passion and dramatic skill will cancel each other out. An actor...
Dressed up as American and Vietnamese combatants, about 40 VVAW members staged "search-and-destroy missions" and "prisoner interrogations" throughout the morning on the Plaza. Periodically, the "Americans" charged the subway station and yelling "Kill the Gooks!" fired their toy machine guns point-blank at people emerging from the station...
...hadn't been for the acrobatics of goalie Bruce Durno, Harvard would have lest by a lot more than one goal. Durno ended his excellent career by turning away 35 shots, many of them from point-blank range...
...despite its 4-12 record in Division I play. Dartmouth played well, refusing to fold in the third period and thoroughly testing Durno with 31 shots, many of them from point-blank range...