Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paula Prentiss, the tough, erotic nurse in Catch-22, stretch out naked in the languorous sunshine, and, in the process, blot out all the images of the forties I had worked so hard to accrue. The same thing had happened the year before when Jane Fonda's Gloria ( They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ) had come to dominate my sense of the thirties, and two years before that when Faye Dunaway's Bonnie ( Bonnie and Clyde ) tried her hand at the same. Now I have no trouble with all the old movies I've seen on TV. For as much...
...houses of Phu Loc are made of artillery crates laid out in rigidly straight lines and bunched together for security. In 1965, the area was completely burned by American bombs because the land was too rich to leave to the Communists. Today not a single tree or bamboo shoot grows there. Asked what he missed most from earlier times, the village chief replied: "The jackfruit trees and the bamboo. They gave us wood, fruit and shade. Now it will take at least five years for the trees to grow back...
Skezag (a slang term for heroin) is a relentless portrait of three junkies who shoot up in front of the camera and drift off into their heroin fantasies of incoherent hostility and depression. Before they do, Skezag records a long conversation between Film Makers Joel Freedman and Philip Messina and a smooth-talking hustler named Wayne, who claims that he is not really addicted. Two friends of his eventually enter the claustrophobic scene: Sonny, quiet and morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have...
...seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained for he "had a purpose in life... to die. Die fighting for black people's freedom." A fate he viewed as "better than with prayers and pleas/ in the clutch of some disease/ wasting...
Cooch Owen and Andy Marks both shot 78. In his second match of the season. Owen recovered from a very bad front nine (41) to shoot 37 for the last nine holes...