Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once-and-for-all of drugs and liquor. Backed by a family fortune which had previously sustained his drug habit, Rooks cast himself in the lead part (giving himself a pseudonym, Russell Harwick), and went to work in 16mm, deciding 6 months later to do it up proud and shoot professionally in 35mm. Only a few of the original shots remain, indicated by a black strip of masking on screen right-or-left revealing that the 16mm frame was blown up double to 32 mm, still not quite filling the 35mm frame...
...next step. Bunuel shows how agonizing apathy is. You want desperately to go forward, yet you're in a sort of vaccuum. The longer you remain in it, the more you try to fill it up. You bitch and invent distracting crises. The host, upon urging, offers to shoot himself for inviting everybody over. People begin to thirst and starve so that a piece of fruit, rather than departure, occupies their minds...
...chose to be a liquor inspector. He was a tough one. In his first case, a lone foray against an unlicensed saloon, the tough barkeep and customers laughed in his scrawny face (he then weighed only 150 Ibs.). Stokes pistol-whipped the bartender into submission. Later, in a shoot-out with some bootleggers, one of Stokes's colleagues was wounded while Stokes gunned down two men. Before long he had the second highest record of arrests among 85 inspectors...
...split-six, a four-three, and a variation of the Notre Dame four-four," says Defensive Coach Ralph Bauch. "We stunt in the line, and we do a lot of blitzing to put pressure on the quarterback. We're set up to blitz any hole, and we sometimes shoot in a deep back as well as a linebacker...
Filipino sociologists trace the high incidence of political shoot-outs to the islands' rigid feudalistic society. Members of a particular clan feel great loyalty to their leader, and the duty to defend him far outweighs the legal injunction against killing. Though the candidates themselves usually counsel moderation and almost never do any shooting, their followers often feel compelled by a fierce sense of honor to avenge insults-or to ensure their leader's victory by canceling out the other names on the ballot with bullets...