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Word: shooted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cameras. He would take a motif -- a friend smoking and talking, people around a table, a swimmer in the blue light-dappled water of his Los Angeles pool, an allee of chestnut trees or a green spindly iron chair with pigeons in ) the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris -- and shoot away: click-zip, left-right, up- down, frame after frame, more like a hen pecking than a formal photographer composing, an accumulation of nervous little details, splinters and shards. He would deal out the images, dozens or hundreds of them, on the studio floor and begin assembling. "There are a hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Recomposed of Shards | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...three gunmen in Muslim West Beirut when the taxi in which he was riding stopped with a flat tire. Blindfolded and with a gun at his temple, Hirst shouted and kicked to attract attention as he was driven through the city, ignoring a gunman's threats to shoot him if he did not desist. "I tried to make as much noise as I could, especially when the car stopped or slowed down at traffic jams," he recounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The One That Got Away | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

When the car stopped in a southern suburb, Hirst, who had succeeded in removing the blindfold, forced the door open and escaped. "When I ran away, they did not shoot," he marveled. Hirst, who then grabbed a taxi back to town, says he has not decided whether to stay in Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The One That Got Away | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...highlight of the BC match was a shot-clock which buzzed so loudly that play was suspended for 10 minutes. The clock eventually had to be turned off, forcing players to look up at the main scoreboard to see how much time they had left to shoot...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Homecoming | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known as Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, used Paris as a base and once killed two French secret-service men and a Lebanese accomplice in a shoot-out on the Left Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: City of Intrigue | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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