Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberal Party candidate for city council in a northern Luzon town was shot to death in an ambush. In Batangas, 60 miles south of Manila, the brother and a bodyguard of the Liberal mayoral candidate were killed in a shoot-out with bodyguards of the incumbent Nacionalista Party mayor. In downtown Manila, an assassin killed a candidate for governor of one of the outlying provinces. In a nightclub near Manila, a gunman severely wounded Jose B. Laurel Jr., son of the wartime puppet President and now Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, pumping two .45-cal. slugs into...
When she began Reflections, Author McCullers admitted, "I had no idea who was going to shoot whom." But where the book's suspense was killing, the movie's is merely deadening. Long before its violent conclusion, the audience has ceased to care about the hung-up characters. As a cracked Southern belle, Julie Harris is the only member of the cast who reflects the distinctive McCullers quality of loneliness and terror. The others are merely mannerists. All that remains praiseworthy is the film's extraordinary photographic technique. Seemingly shot in black and white, the picture is actually...
Taylor, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Ambassador to Saigon, is now special consultant to the President. He explained that the U.S. had four alternatives in Vietnam: "We can walk out. Talk it out. Shoot it out. Stick it out." But he added that "before we leave our present hole, let's be sure we have a better hole...
...Golden Eye moves pretty slowly. John Huston's latest offering glides languidly through a series of loosely-tied scenes, punctuated by flashes of nudity (male and female) and spasms of sudden violence. The movie's general torpor is heightened by someone's decision, presumably Huston's to shoot through a filter that allowed only forms of red to record properly. All other colors show up black and white but red all over. It is difficult to go through the film without idly wondering if you'll recognize the color blue if you ever see it again...
...Force was about to fire an Athena missile from Green River, Utah, to White Sands, N. Mex. Farr figured that the cattle and the second stage of the missile would reach the same piece of trail at the same time, doggedly persuaded the Air Force to reschedule the shoot and give the cattle right...