Word: shootout
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...There's going to be a lot of points scored," Morris said. "It's going to be another shootout...
Their spin doctors, their surrogates, even their wives - they had everybody expecting a shootout. Instead, anyone who took the time to tune in Thursday night to the traditionally superfluous vice-presidential debate got to see a pair of confident, articulate, serious and dignified number-two men have a gentlemanly discussion - and gentlemen's disagreements - about the right direction for America and the current state of the world...
...told that there are four rather than eight terrorists. And someone forgot to order up the armored cars for the final assault until 20 minutes after the shooting starts. The resulting debacle now becomes a tragicomic debacle, with German policemen shooting each other, and some two hours into the shootout the Palestinians kill all the hostages with a hand grenade and machine gun fire. This from the nation that gave the world Blitzkrieg. They then follow up by lying to the world's media, sending out a global sigh of relief - which makes the front page from London...
...months ago, though, some prisoners lost it, lost the hope, and one of them took a guard hostage. Burl Cain couldn't talk the hope back into him, and they had a shootout. "He got one of ours, and we got one of theirs," he says. "It all worked out in the end." And wrong as that sounds, in Angola that's how it is, and there's no hiding from it, and I feel so lucky to go back to a place where heaven and hell and sin and redemption are just philosophy...
...that focuses on how much action Williams got from his screen sister, Maureen ("Marcia") McCormick. But at heart it's really about how darn much you love the Bradys and, by extension, TV. In one scene the Brady boys explore the Paramount lot, racing a cart through a gangster shootout and playing with phasers on the set of Star Trek. It's a big, slobbery kiss to TV past, and an ironic one coming from the network that vaporized the original Trek...