Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What a night at the Burtons! Charlie Brown, the beloved Abyssinian cat of Elizabeth Taylor, 34, had slipped outdoors and got lost on the grounds of the rented villa in Rome where Liz, Dick and the menagerie are staying while they shoot The Taming of the Shrew. Next morning at 5, Charlie Brown awakened the family with anguished meowing from the top of a fir tree, and out trooped Liz, Dick and butler to the rescue. The butler bravely ascended the fir, but when he started down with Charlie, the cat squirmed loose, plummeting onto Liz's head...
...Jutra outdoes himself in celebrating the girl's dusky feline beauty. Johanne meets him, moves in with him, gets pregnant by him, narrowly averts "a $200 operation" before he goes away and leaves her. Though intrinsically commonplace, their affair is cinematically modish, caught by cameramen who appear to shoot from the hip, doting on closeups, picking up lots of outdoor mist and indoor cigarette smoke at unexpected angles...
...Shoot the Mayor. After the first clash between the government's tough airborne troopers and the demonstrators, Ky summoned an extraordinary session of the nation's generals and officials, who flew in from all over the country. They agreed to call a Congress in one or two weeks to work out the composition of a constitution-making assembly. In a press conference afterward, the mercurial Premier, puffing on Salems and nibbling from a plate of candy, made the angry charge that the city of Danang, where demonstrations were spreading, "is already held by the Communists, and the government...
...Eyewitnesses reported red, white and blue (or orange, red and green) lights moving at "fantastic speed." Others detected a strong odor of perfume as the UFOs moved overhead. One woman saw "four glowing fireballs arranged in a cube," while another insisted that she had seen a light plane shoot down one of the strange things...
...make him a louse? No, no! Killing does not necessarily mean badness. You find killing in some very fine homes for one reason or another. And as we all know, President Kennedy was a dying man. So I say that it is possible that my son was chosen to shoot him in a mercy-killing for the security of the country. And if this is true, it was a fine thing to do and my son is a hero...