Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raisin-sugar cookies in the press room at Jadwin barely provided enough fuel to contemplate cruising to Philadelphia for the Crimson's contest against Pennsylvania this evening...
Eventually they end up at a diner, where Teddy slowly takes control of all the people and subjects each of them to similar humiliations. Comparison with The Petrified Forest is inevitable. As in that movie, most of the action takes place in one room, in which a group of diverse types is held hostage by one violent man. Both are set in roadside cafes in the Southwest. But many of the elements which made The Petrified Forest a great film are missing in Red Ryder. The most important of these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified...
Still, I've seen him once or twice--in the nets, on the field, in the locker room...
What aficionado has not been confined in a summer cottage on a rainy day with someone who does not know about thrillers and keeps announcing every 40 pages who killed Roger Ackroyd or who has :he key to the locked room? The connoisseur knows that the fun of a suspense novel lies not in competing with the author but in admiring his craft...
Police allege that Terrance ripped Claggett's gun from his holster while the two were alone in the small processing room, shot and killed him, and then shot Swart as he ran towards the room. Melvin, who was handcuffed to a bench in another room, claims he witnessed the officers beating his brother just before the shootings occurred...