Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to be answered; the worker is one of Fellini's eccentrics, tolerated in a good-natured way but not respected. Aurelio's wife locks him inside the house on the day II Duce comes to speak so he can't walk about in his "socialist necktie." The fascists shoot the record player he's planted in the bell-tower and march off to the bars congratulating themselves on their bravery...
...other royals, including the Queen Mother, 74, and guests, were left to fend for themselves in nearby fiefs or hotels. Only the wildfowl who live on the 20,000-acre Sandringham estate were assured of spending the holidays in a manner to which they are accustomed: the traditional pheasant shoot, an unhappy affair for as many as 8,000 birds, was in no danger of being canceled...
...Summit which will consider proposals. They are likely to include the idea of tying the price of oil, come next fall, to the rate of inflation in consuming countries: the higher Western prices for non-oil goods would go, the higher still the price of oil would shoot. Western governments would be well advised to prepare themselves carefully. The OPEC governments have given abundant proof that they are shrewd and hard bargainers...
...these games, once, I started to make every shot I took. I couldn't understand it. Every time I would shoot, no matter how many feet behind the foul line it was from, the ball would take this strange trajectory and end up in the basket. If the Institute of Defense Analysis had been around to watch, they'd probably have junked the electronic battlefield. Truck and Meyer and Ed Thompson and Matt Busby just stared and watched, and after awhile even the dude I've disliked since we were both eight years old stopped trying to steal the ball...
...precepts, practiced most intensely at the Actors Studio in New York City and called casually the Method. Those for whom the Studio and the Method are synonyms of indulgence will be surprised by Strasberg's thorough, precise approach to his role. "A lot of actors, every time you shoot another take of a scene, they do the same action differently," says Francis Coppola. "Not Lee. He always did the same thing. He told me, 'You break your leg, you always break it the same way.' " "For me, it was a lark," reports Strasberg. The idea of casting...