Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like some macabre fulfillment of McLuhanism, the bloodiest and most suspenseful act in the tragedy of Patricia Campbell Hearst became a public event. Millions of Americans watched last week as television carried live the Shootout in a Los Angeles residential neighborhood between lawmen and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnaped-and claimed to have converted to radical terrorism-the 20-year-old publishing heiress. The TV images seemed plucked from old Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy...
Once in the unfamiliar setting of Los Angeles, the S.L.A.-so coolly professional on their own turf-began to make amateurish errors. The day before the Shootout, a couple believed to be William and Emily Harris, both suspected S.L.A. members, bought $31.50 worth of heavy outdoor clothing at a sporting-goods store. As they left, a clerk noticed that the man had stuffed a pair of 490 socks up his sleeve. He followed the pilferer outside, where the two began to struggle. Suddenly, a woman sitting in a Volkswagen van across the street sprayed the store with machine-gun fire...
...They have to face the psychological weaponry of the Mulkerins' Indian friends (using ancient magical powers to scare the wits out of them). Those villains who survive face the actual hardware of other friends, "lean men and tall, with Mexican spurs and battered, flatbrimmed hats," in the inevitable shootout...
...Holly are two ends of a parenthesis around emptiness. They play at love-as if re-enacting the lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after the shootout, to hear the doctor pronounce him dead. They are both living out parallel fantasies of glory, and Malick tells their story in the language of their secondhand dreams. He thus leaves himself open to accusations of condescension to his characters, but Badlands, which can cut sharply, also has a sort...
...attack. High on the list is George W. Crockett Jr., 64, a black attorney who once served four months for contempt following a Smith Act trial in which he defended eleven accused Communists. Elected to the bench in 1966, he set up court in police headquarters following a 1969 shootout at a black church and immediately began releasing prisoners who were being held without counsel. Now presiding judge for a term of one year, Crockett is still tough on the cops, but has come to appear conservative by comparison with newer, still more outspoken judges...