Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weather. There were other difficulties. The character of Clemenza, the family loyalist who taught Michael how to shoot and make a good tomato sauce with meatballs in Part I, was written out. Reason: Richard Castellano, who played him, was making exorbitant demands, including a huge salary and the right to rewrite his dialogue. Then the script was redone once again, three days before the scheduled start, after conferences between Coppola and Pacino about adding "shadows" to Michael's character...
...strike and quickly won one of the fattest settlements in labor history, a 50% raise in wages and benefits over three years. In the light of labor's understandable frustration with both inflation and recession, the increase could well set a new high goal for other unions to shoot for, with grave consequences for the economy and the nation. Last year most unions were accepting wage-and-benefit increases of little more than 6% in the first year of contracts. During the first six months of 1974, the average settlement climbed to between 8% and 9%, and by September...
...being debated in Pretoria last week, but the consensus seemed to be that such a move would be self-defeating. As one Johannesburg newspaper put it, as long as South Africa's enemies can shout at it in the U.N., they are less likely to shoot...
...hopes to see two more men freed soon. Last week, because of stories by Raab, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner was considering reopening the murder convictions of Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter and Grocery Clerk John Artis after a 1966 shoot-out in Paterson, N.J. Raab was instrumental in getting two witnesses to admit that they had lied about seeing Carter and Artis at the murder scene...
What the liberals and the students lacked was the day-to-dayness that breeds the tension which makes Johnson shoot or a peoples revolt. It's also what makes a working man kick his wife around or punch his fellow with the vengeance of one who's punched every day from eight to five. When it's 120 degrees on the floor, there's always the potential for "look what he is doing to me" and "what am I allowed to do to him" to churn together and wrestle and emerge as a "dammit I'll just do." Because...