Word: shootout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that the incident was not "a shootout, it was a shoot...
...columns. He has castigated horror films for sending seven-year-olds into nervous tears and deplored an "obscenely brutal" hunting film presented as "family" entertainment. But Ebert can also defend the balletic, bloody violence in The Wild Bunch on the grounds that, like a child's mock shootout, it is "no more real than dozens of gunfights I have already survived in the company of Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and John Wayne." Nor is he prudish when it comes to a well-turned dash of décolletage. "If there's anything drearier than a dirty movie with...
...said, "Man, you have violence in Easy Rider." But the violence I put in Easy Rider was unacceptable because it was unexpected. The violence in The Wild Bunch was expected and totally acceptable. When it is acceptable, you have already dealt with it in some past experience. The shootout. COCKS: How about asking each of you whether you are conscious of having an individual image on the screen, something that you represent to people? HENRY: Well, I'm aware of it only because I hear people talk about me. Joe Mankiewicz recently cast me in a picture because...
...Garry pictured the Panther "defense minister" as a selfless leader of his people and compared his message with that of Jesus, who said: "I came not to send peace but a sword." Despite a public clamor for revenge against Newton, who was accused of murdering a policeman during a Shootout in Oakland, he was convicted on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Now Garry, 60, is the top legal defender of other Panther leaders across the nation...