Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder in a long communiqué attacking the Italian press. The bulletin was signed by a newly created branch of the terrorist organization known as the March 28 Brigade, named for the date in 1980 when four Red Brigades members died in a shootout with Genoa police...
...leftist Argentine guerrilla group. Their presumed motive: solidarity with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolutionaries, who succeeded in overthrowing the Somoza family's ruthless 43-year dynasty last year after a bitter civil war. At week's end, one suspected ERP ringleader was killed in a shootout and 60 people had been picked up for questioning...
...right as members of the so-called unrealistic fringe, hated by a "good segment of society." This equation is the same methodology which led the bourgeois press to characterize the KKK's cold-blooded murder of five anti-Klan militants in Greensboro, North Carolina, as simply a "shootout" between two "violence-prone extremist groups...
...bank, successfully. The heat starts to mount, and Ryan starts having people killed. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is slowly learning that Tommy is responsible for the death of her husband, his best friend. Everybody who is anybody and still alive shows up in the final scene for a Christmas Eve shootout; the novice gangster who had idolized Ryan only to watch him waste his girlfriend, the grieving widow who now knew for sure that her lover had done in her man, the size 14 cop. And Ryan, he dies a death fit for a B-School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed...
...with Pam (Madolyn Smith), a rich man's bored daughter who likes to slum in Gilley's. The destinies of these people, all of whom are about as articulate as the mechanical beast, are finally worked out in a riding contest - a sit-out instead of a Shootout - between Bud and Wes and in an even more melodramatic coda. This provides added opportunities for heroics and also a neat enough resolution. It is, however, a most improbable ending...