Word: shootout
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...movie provides good, escapist wishfulfillment. No matter how much Murray baits the sergeant, disregards authority and breaks the rules, everything comes out all right. There's even a shootout with Russians in Czechoslovakia which pits 40 Americans against 200 Russians in closerange combat with machine-guns, mortars, grenades and cannons--and nobody gets hurt...
...thriller it is axiomatic that character is action. When the characters act for themselves, Gorky Park maintains its credibility and force. Only at the end, when the lines of Soviet intrigue are played out, does Smith allow action to rule character. In New York the story degenerates to Shootout, and authenticity gives way to violence and the requisite antiromantic finale...
...investments will be its home, car and computer. With costs for the machines dropping quickly, some visionaries even foresee three computers in every home: one in the den for financial use, one in the living room for education and entertainment, and one in the kitchen for information. The current Shootout in the industry will determine whether brand names like Panasonic and IBM will soon become as common on small computers as Radio Shack and Apple...
...floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession, and in a well-managed final shootout...
...largest of the year. Capacity is 2850...The junior varsity cruised to yet another win, Saturday afternoon, beating Yale, 8-0. Kevin Hampe's boys are now 14-0-1...And plaudits to Lloyd Perlmutter, who along with goalie Nathan Berkowitz won the shootout for Mather House, 2-1, over Currier. The Voice of Bright Center exhibited quite a wrist shot, and the rumors are that Cleary was watching...