Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dicket (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (9) 6. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (7) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (6) 9. The Anderson Tapes, Sanders 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...
...candidate for city council president, Mailer picked Jimmy Breslin, an ex-newspaperman who got so much practice writing fiction as a columnist for the late Herald Tribune that he had little trouble producing the bestselling comic-Mafia novel, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Mailer-Breslin was a ticket compounded of booze fulminate of mercury, and laughing gas It was too volatile to survive. There was also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty...
...Love Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dickey (3) 4. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 5. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (6) 6. The Godfather, Puzo (5) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (9) 8. A Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel (7) 9. Losing Battles, Welty (8) 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...
...compassion by some of Charlie Company's G.I.s while the killing went on all around them. One soldier saw three children peek from some brush where they were hiding, motioned them to lie flat. Several G.I.s shouted to distract a soldier just as he was about to shoot an elderly woman. About the only heroic figure in the mad morning was Lieut. Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who marked spots where he saw wounded children and women so that ground troops could provide medical aid. He was astonished and furious when he saw officers and G.I.s rush over...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...