Word: shootout
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...subject overwhelmed any possibility of creating a tightly structured movie of sustained interest. Instead, he presented us fistfight after gunbattle after fistfight ad infinitum, and the final effect was to numb rather than involve us. Because the flow of passion had been so steady during the movie, the "climactic" shootout was hardly cathartic at all--it merely appeared a degree or two more intense than what had preceded...
Patty said that she had been convinced that the authorities were out to kill her, a belief reinforced, she claimed, when Los Angeles police stormed an S.L.A. hideaway in the famous fiery Shootout that she watched on television. She recalled how the announcers pointed out that she was thought to be in the house that was being blasted with more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition. To strengthen the point, Bailey played the color films of the gun battle before turning his witness over to Browning...
...prodigious emotional distances to be at their daughter's side again. The first shock of the kidnaping, the pain of Patty's taped denunciation of her parents as "pigs," the dark hours before the charred bodies of six Symbionese Liberation Army members killed in a Los Angeles Shootout were identified, and her sudden, almost unexpected capture last September-all have left their scars on the Hearsts...
This was all exasperated by the fact that my baptism into the Beanpot coincided with the transformation of the tournament into a veritable B.U. Invitational. Including last night's shootout with icemen from the Heights, the Terriers have skated off with the laurels eight of the last 11 years...
...last night it was just frosting on the cake. While Harvard was drudging through its 4-2 consolation win, my old friends from B.C. were tuning up for the upset of the season. And, after the smoke cleared from the shootout on the Garden's ice, that damned old dog, the Terrier, lay dead, 6-3. And I just sat back and smiled...