Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang has sworn to share with the others, but as his companions scrounge for a meal-and sometimes get killed in the process-Drew keeps $100 stashed in his shoe. The bankroll makes his lofty moral principles a great deal easier to hold...
BRATTLE THEATER. The Searchers, one of John Ford's finest westerns, is doubled with Howard Hawk's Rio Bravo, which some love, others hate, and I haven't seen. Ford plays at 5:30 and 9:50, and 7:30 with a weekend matinee...
...evening three weeks ago, Auto Salesman José Jiménez Lizcano was talking with a young customer in front of his home in Nuevo Laredo, just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. Suddenly, a late-model yellow Mustang cruised past, and a gunman stuck the barrel of an AR-15 automatic rifle out the window and fired a burst at the two men. Jiménez, whom someone in the underworld apparently suspected of working with the police, escaped the second attempt on his life in nine months and promptly departed for Chicago. His customer, a young carpet...
...bullets, he received 90. His companion, a U.S. Army deserter who was only interested in buying a pound of pot, was found alongside the Tennessean with 60 bullets in his body. In another grisly episode, an independent dealer was found in a clump of bushes near the Rio Grande. He had been decapitated with a machete...
...When provoked, even by the vibrations caused by nearby farm machinery, the bee releases a hormone chemical that starts it off on a sort of kamikaze attack on anything that moves. The bees are now officially blamed for the deaths of ten Brazilians (one farm worker near Rio de Janeiro succumbed to more than 1,000 stings) and, unofficially, for any bee "bite" anywhere in Brazil. Even horses, mules and chickens have been killed by them. Nonetheless, they produce quantities of honey, and intrepid beekeepers raise them, though the hives are moved well away from populated areas. These bees work...