Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the night, followed by two police cars and several autos filled with reporters. Unable to shake his pursuers on a wild ride through Paris, Jubin finally brought the car to a screeching halt, jumped out and yelled: "If you don't stop following me, I'll shoot a hostage." The police and the newsmen turned back...
That is not the case this season-at least as far as baseball is concerned--and the high flying Crimson had better not forget it. the Engineers have all the credentials to deal out. Just the anti-aircraft fire to shoot Harvard right...
...final months of life, Mobster Joey Gallo developed an unusual friendship with Actor Jerry Orbach and his wife, Writer Maria Curro. Orbach had played a role patterned in part after Gallo's life in the movie version of Jimmy Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Out of the blue, the Orbachs got a call from Gallo, who wanted to meet his screen counterpart. The three saw each other almost daily after that. The Orbachs told TIME correspondent James Willwerth how they felt about Gallo. It is a picture that his rivals-and victims-would...
...nouns as fink, stoolie, rat, canary, squealer. In some police argot they are snitches. Yet no major police force can operate without some of the shady types who will go where cops seldom can, perhaps to a meeting of conspirators, or do what cops won't, for example, shoot heroin before a cautious pusher will make a sale. Informers have long been found in every area of life, but since the McCarthy era there has not been so much public concern about them in the U.S. as there...
...some scraplet of Chandler's small output will turn up. This volume rewards with an immaculate early story, Red Wind, and punishes with a dreadful late effort called The Pencil. Also included are two famous novellas, Trouble Is My Business and Blackmailers Don't Shoot, and two full novels, The Little Sister and The Long Goodbye. The difference between the two novels reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Little Sister is vintage Chandler. The plot is ingenious and preposterously complicated. Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it). In The Long Goodbye...