Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willingness to take on hackneyed material and push its freshest-elements to their most complex conclusions throughout his unheralded career. From Having a Wild Weekend to Point Blank to Hell in the Pacific to Leo the Last he has made poignant romance from rock group fantasy, existential comedy gangster shoot-em-up, psychological examination from World War II melodrama, revolutionary parable from absurdist fantasy. His record is not consistently successful. But each of his films is interesting, and Deliverance is his most accomplished film...
...insure that the players shoot for number two or number three. Coach Harrison has hired a new assistant coach from upstate New York, Bob Hart...
...disgusted to read TIME'S description of the slow-fire pistol shoot as an "event that only a Mafia button man could love." The millions of Americans and people abroad who like pistol and/or rifle matches are certainly not Mafia button...
...final decision to stage an ambush was based on the West German conviction that if the terrorists were allowed to fly out with the hostages, they would shoot their prisoners elsewhere. The Arabs had told them that they would shoot them next morning if Israel had not released its prisoners. That was probably indeed the Black September gang's intent-but there is still room for a nagging doubt. The Arabs, after all, had ignored their own ultimatums and let their deadlines go by before -and the hostages were worth more to them alive than dead. Presumably, the terrorists...
...They move through the town like the mob in Lord of the Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...