Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial transcript and found the case against Carter and Artis weak. He returned to the bar where the shootings occurred and retraced the steps of two key witnesses, Arthur D. Bradley and Alfred P. Bello, who were burglarizing a nearby sheet-metal company at the time of the Shootout. At the trial, both witnesses gave the impression that they were next door to the murder scene. Raab discovered that the metal company was actually 2½ blocks away. When Raab tried to question the two witnesses, both refused to talk. For nine months he and others following the case reminded...
Rosengarten first went to see Nate Shaw because Shaw had been a member of a short-lived Alabama labor union, the Sharecroppers' Union, and had spent 12 years in prison after a shootout with white sheriffs that stemmed from his union activities. But the book turned out to be more than just a story about a man who had joined a union and gone to jail; it is a detailed account of 85 years of Nate Shaw's life, with the union and prison experiences serving as a central balancing point...
Unwilling to grind out a routine crime melodrama, but unable to turn it into the cynical satire he seems to have hoped he was making, he simply botched his assignment. Frankenheimer's flair for action sequences-a chase involving a school bus, a shootout in a giant, steaming laundry-can still be summoned up. But the rest of the film is heartless, tasteless and noisily desperate. It is always sad to see an overreacher turn into an underachiever, but to find the tense talent capable of The Manchurian Candidate busying himself with feckless projects like this is infuriating. When...
...follow-up to Low Spark, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory, was identical to its predecessor right up to the album design. The one thing missing was imagination--almost every critic had his fun with the title of one cut, "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired." Even worse, that concert tour was marked by the overshadowing of Stevie Winwood on organ by a part of the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and the omnipresent Rebop on bongos, congas, and other assorted skins. With Capaldi prancing about as the meaningless figurehead, one actually wondered if the Traffic known to millions had really existed...
...Europe from that tour featured high-powered versions of favorites like "Glad" and "Freedom Rider." For American listeners, Traffic's case remained tragic. Only one of the two discs was released in the U.S.--the inferior one, with dragged-out versions of songs taken from Low Spark and Shootout...