Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent up to a wild shoot-out at the end, wittily imagined, cunningly staged. But not, perhaps, quite enough of a reward for those who wait around...
With no magic bullet to shoot them through the heart, the city burned the modern heretics at the stake. The water washed the city's hands. As Ramona said to the judge at her trial, "The whole city of Philadelphia is trying to wash the blood of Move people off their hands and they're using you as the water...
...Harvard community, including K-School students and graduates who have petitioned and called for recision of the award. But recision is not the solution; it would only compound the huge public relations fracture. It's asking too much for the K-School to swallow its pride and also shoot itself in the chest in its relations with the Administration. Two solutions present themselves. Meese took the first step in damage control by postponing his appearance. That gives the K-School time to graciously forget that they ever offered the award or to rename the award. A nice innocuous title that...
...start. The 1,243-page indictment proved to be filled with circumstantial evidence. After 97 court sessions, there was no firm evidence as to which accomplice may have been with Agca in St. Peter's Square. None of the cash that Agca said he was promised for the shooting has ever turned up. The prosecution showed that Agca received aid and money from Turkish friends, but nowhere is there proof that they intended to help him shoot the Pope. ( Rather, they may have been supporting one of the jewelry-store robberies or other holdups to which he admits. Says Claire...
...When the attacks were launched, the Soviets apparently were not around. "Maybe they were taking a coffee break," said one official wryly. The Soviets had one communication ship anchored at Surt and kept it lit up like a country carnival so that the U.S. fleet would know not to shoot it. But in the event of a more strenuous fight, the U.S. had made an explicit decision not to be deterred by the risks of Soviet casualties. Said a U.S. official: "This wasn't our intent, but if it happened, that...