Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What emerged was a script for a film to be called The Inmates. The setting was to be the Bronx, which, Resnais says, has for the Frenchman all the attraction of the exotic. Then the problems began. Resnais went to producers and offered to shoot the script for a million dollars. No, they said, to do it right you would have to go to Japan for special effects and spend three million: for a million it would only be an "intellectual" film. Now a second script by Stan Lee also seems doubtful of acceptance by American producers, and Resnais speculates...
...During the war, Dita first worked as "a troubleshooter" for the Board of Economic Warfare. "I just stamped and signed and got things moving." She joined the Red Cross. "We were sent to George Washington University to learn to play poker and shoot craps-things that I was born doing." She was then sent to an Army camp where, she complains, "they had us getting up at 5 in the morning cooking for the goddam WACs." She got out of that by becoming a truck driver even after the motor-pool officer "checked...
...tourists come off the plane and shoot around Los Angeles like camphor boats in a bathtub, trying to locate the downtown so that they can taste the drama of the big city, just the way they would back in Cleveland or Chicago or New York. At dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon...
...Texas surveyor looking for a boundary marker tugged at a mysterious pipe protruding from the ground. The pipe, a "coyote getter," designed to shoot cyanide into any animal that disturbs its wick, fired a cartridge into the surveyor's hand. An hour later he was dead. Such incidents have become increasingly common as sheep growers and federal agents have used more and more poisons to kill predators. In some areas, foxes, weasels, eagles and a number of other species have virtually disappeared. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency has banned 19 products containing cyanide, thallium sulfate, strychnine and sodium monofluoracetate...
...gauchistes. But they did denounce the Overney killing as "an extensive exercise in political provocation for the benefit of the government." For its part, the government wavered for a few days and then indicted Tramoni for homicide. Unlike the unarmed Renault guards, he had used his personal pistol to shoot Overney...