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...accompany the victims in the police paddy wagon as it careened through the tangle of traffic on Nanking Road, the siren wailing and the doomed men screaming for mercy. At the station the victims were dumped into the street and then shot through the head, one by one, pointblank...
Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...
...unlikely name of William Morris* to lay a wreath near the spot where two Peronist guerrillas were killed by police two years ago. Police attempts to break up the demonstration touched off a five-hour battle. One Peronist youth was killed by a tear-gas canister fired at pointblank range, and the melee was broken up only when army units moved in. Juan Abal Medina, a leader of Perón's Justicialist Party whose brother had been killed in the 1970 Shootout, threatened more confrontations. "If the armed forces continue with their campaign of violence," he said, "they...
...example, Gabey's ballad "Lonely Town" is played against a sky-blue background interrupted only by three stalagmite-like skyscrapers which make the place look more like Monument Valley), although the first act's Times Square design, crowded with neon that even extends to a multi-colored proscenium, hits pointblank. Crowded up against the footlights, the large ensemble looks exactly like the blatantly artificial casts that people the production stills I've seen from the period. (One other bit of nostalgia I could go for in a big way would be the removal of the floor mikes that distort half...
...Squires Hill, four miles west of Ulster's capital, a pair of schoolboys had found the bodies of Dougald and his two friends, brothers Joseph, 18, and John McCaig, 17. The corpses were heaped grotesquely on top of one another. Two of the fusiliers had been shot pointblank through the head, the third through the body. Two empty beer glasses lay near the bodies. The violence that has marked clashes involving the Protestant majority, the Catholic minority and the 8,500 British troops stationed in Ulster had suddenly taken on a terrible new aspect...